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The median sales price in the borough is $900,000.
The Times’s editorial board noted that Donovan later emailed to say that he was referring to the “assessed value of homes in Brooklyn.”
“I really don’t think you can buy a house in Brooklyn today for that little,” he wrote, according to the Times’s editorial board.
But a slate of journalists and other Twitter users were quick to jab the candidates for their far-off responses on the city’s housing.
.@RayForMayor & @ShaunDonovanNYC both think a home in Brooklyn costs $100K.
How can you fix the city’s housing crisis if you’re this oblivious? pic.twitter.com/fW9fWeCXbU Monica Klein (@MonicaCKlein) May 11, 2021
The Biden administration s failure to appoint an ambassador to Israel is a serious problem, analyst says
May 11, 2021
As the Israel-Palestine conflict escalates, the lack of a U.S. ambassador to Israel or a consul general in Jerusalem for Palestinians is becoming more glaring, Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Tuesday.
I realize the Administration has lowballed and deprioritized the Middle East and Israeli-Palestinian issue. But the lack of an Ambassador to Israel and a consul general in Jerusalem is a serious problem during a crisis.
In an earlier tweet, Miller wrote that the Biden administration s decision to remain mostly out of the fray has resulted in Israel and Hamas emerging as the key decision-makers at the moment, which is not an uplifting thought. Walla News Barak Ravid seemed to agree that the unhurried approach is befuddling amid a huge crisis, noting that the Biden administration has appointed envoys
Ben Affleck reportedly started flooding Jennifer Lopez with loving and longing emails in February
No, you haven t accidentally stepped into a time machine and emerged back in 2003: it appears Bennifer really might be a thing again.
After it was revealed Monday that exes Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck recently vacationed together for a week,
TMZ reported Tuesday that they didn t just rekindle their romance within the last two weeks, but instead, it s been building since February. According to the report, Lopez and Affleck, who broke up in 2004, were in very regular contact beginning in early February, when Affleck started flooding her with emails while she was filming a movie in the Dominican Republic.
By Vivian KaneMay 11th, 2021, 3:32 pm
New York City’s mayoral primary election is next month and so far, much of the national media coverage has been on how out-of-touch some of these candidates are. Andrew Yang entered the race late and has been dominating in the polls thanks to name recognition but he also lost the endorsement of a prominent LGBTQIA group after making some seriously “tokenizing” remarks. (He also doesn’t appear to know what a bodega is.) Scott Stringer has been accused of harassing and assaulting a former employee twenty years ago, making a pretty great case for just not voting for men in general for a while.