“If you live in New York City, pay the New York City price. It sucks, I get it. Insurance is expensive here, but that’s the deal.”
Even a “slow’ August week in New York City is stuffed with stories about who pays and who benefits, and about who’s watching who.
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Co-hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel dig into the state’s new effort to ferret out New Yorkers who want to live here but pay lower insurance and tax bills somewhere cheaper, a lawsuit pushing back on the NYPD’s use of NYCHA’s free wifi program to give officers unfettered live access to the housing authority’s surveillance cameras, and much more, including a rare direct shot at President Trump from Zohran Mamdani and a bad-faith crusade targeting the mayor.
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