Ugh. What a total waste of space. Offspring like this is why I never wanted to be rich.
[NYPost] A rent-striking, rising-star radical orchestrating the Mamdani administration’s socialist housing agenda is the daughter of a famed music studio owner who recorded rock legends like David Bowie, the Ramones, Blondie, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, the Foo Fighters and Coldplay, The Post has learned.
While framing herself as a champion of the proletariat, Tracy Rosenthal grew up in a trendy $1.7 million NoMad pad with elite access to the music industry — attending the Grammys at least twice with her dad, four-time winner Steven Rosenthal.
Her father recorded hit albums by some of the world’s biggest artists at the Magic Shop, the SoHo studio he founded in 1988, including Coldplay’s 2008 “Viva la Vida,” which sold more than 10 million copies worldwide; the Foo Fighters’ 2014 “Sonic Highways,” for which he was interviewed in the band’s HBO docuseries; and Bowie’s final album, 2016’s “Blackstar.”
Yet despite her first-class upbringing, she’s been on a four-year “rent strike” since moving back to New York City after a stint in Los Angeles — because the Bolshevik bugged out after spotting a cockroach in her hip $2,300 a month Bed-Stuy apartment.
At a North Carolina Democratic Socialists of America meeting where she spoke last August, Rosenthal, 39 — who pridefully posed for a snap on Karl Marx’s grave during a trip to London — sang the blues about what she claimed were horrendous conditions she had to endure in 2021.
“As soon as I moved in, I realized that we had roaches . . . and I lost my mind,” she said of the two-bedroom pad that occupies the top floor of a brownstone. “I was very angry. . . . it’s really gross.”
She said the landlord refused to hire an exterminator, and after finding out the building had more rental units than were legally approved and was facing foreclosure, she organized with the other tenants to eventually stop paying rent, stiffing the owner of at least $108,000 on her unit alone.
“We’ve been on rent strike ever since,” she said proudly.
Her Bed-Stuy landlord, Adetunji Akinboboye, eventually lost the building to foreclosure in 2023.
US Bank, the new owner, is now suing Rosenthal, along with four other tenants, for eviction, saying they have “squatted upon the premises,” according to records filed in housing court in November. The cases are still before the courts.
Earlier this year, the building on quiet tree-lined Hancock Street was placed under the Housing Preservation Department’s Alternative Enforcement Program — meaning the landlord had a few months to address tenants’ complaints. It was removed from the program on July 14 after resolving the issues, according to a city notice taped to the front door this week.
This is the same program the Mamdani administration wants to use to “seize housing,” a previous Post analysis found — and which received a $2 billion budget boost. It can lead to the city dragging the landlord to court if it doesn’t do the repairs, and a housing court judge appointing a non-profit to take over the management of the building.
“They feel entitled to these properties,” said Stu Smith, investigative analyst at the Manhattan Institute, who has been studying Rosenthal and the “rent abolitionist” movement.
“I consider her to be a saboteur, I consider her to be a gaslighter. And the fact that the Mamdani administration wants to highlight her as a hero speaks to the ethics and morality of the mayor’s office.”
Rosenthal’s 2024 book “Abolish Rent” lays out the playbook of escalating tactics she used herself — starting with talking to neighbors to identify shared grievances and making collective demands all the way to rent strikes — with the broader goal of shifting control of housing away from landlords.
It’s helped popularize a confrontational model of tenant activism and become a foundational tome for the DSA, which had her to speak to chapters across the nation for the past two years.
“We pay rent at the peril of our need and at the barrel of a gun,” she said at a meeting in 2024 in Midtown.
“It’s a ransom,” she raged. “We know that if we don’t make this payment, our landlords can call on agents of state violence who can use physical force to throw us outdoors.”
The more inflammatory techniques she pushes include camping outside a landlord’s home; shaming them in front of their neighbors, friends and family; leaving “really bad Yelp reviews;” and even crashing their children’s weddings — something she brazenly did with a tenant union in Beverly Hills in 2023.
Rosenthal — who posted “death to America” the night Mamdani clinched the Democratic primary last year and is a visiting scholar at the woke CUNY — put some of these tactics into practice as a strategist in a high-profile battle involving renters across 93 New York City buildings owned by Pinnacle Group, the focus of Mamdani’s taxpayer-funded “mini doc” released this week.
She helped tenants organize into a union that secured repairs and had millions of dollars in back rent forgiven, after the bankrupt landlord sold its 5,200-unit portfolio in the Bronx and Brooklyn.
“Really just everyone should feel so proud of the work that they did advocating for themselves and their neighbors,” Rosenthal says in the City Hall film, where she’s seen celebrating with tenants.
On the day the doc launched, Aug. 4, Mamdani also signed a “Right to Organize” letter — reminding renters of their right to knock on their neighbors’ doors and form tenant associations — echoing Rosenthal’s very techniques.
She proudly shared pictures posing alongside Hizzoner on social media, like at a “Hold Bad Landlords Accountable” photo op at City Hall in May and of the two strategizing during a recent Zoom meeting, according to her now-private Instagram account.
“Absolute banner year for tenant power . . . so much is possible when we organize,” she gloated in an Instagram post in June after the NYC rent freeze was passed.
Rosenthal has been likened to Mamdani tenant czar Cea Weaver — who also hails from an affluent family. The pair regularly speak alongside each other at events and were even featured together in a 2020 Teen Vogue article that framed them as tenant leaders, during the magazine’s activist era under uber woke editor-in-chief Lindsay Peoples Wagner. A slappable face:
An incredibly consistent overlap between the categories of communist activist and privileged rich kids who never held real jobs and have defined their entire lives by their desire to rebel against their rich families. https://t.co/JB54sJtZHj
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Mandani has a solution for rent and one for groceries. Each government program will come with a parasitic drain for some of his family members or cronies. The best part of socialism is watching the politicians get rich.
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David Hogg: on the wrong side of every issue since he started pontificating about guns after he survived a high school massacre by being on the far side of town.
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It’s a fashion thing. It started lumberjack beards when many gave up personal grooming while locked at home during COVID, but I have to wonder how much now is a subconscious need to display the difference between real men and transgender females.
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#6 It’s a fashion thing. It started lumberjack beards when many gave up personal grooming while locked at home during COVID, but I have to wonder how much now is a subconscious need to display the difference between real men and transgender females.
I grew a Van Dyke because if ever forced to wear a mask again, the protection will be worthless as the mask is.
[Breitbart] Same old shit, with added Jooo hate
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Michigan Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed
…who only won in the college towns, which makes one wonder about the margin of cheating…
said that after he is elected, Democrats would “investigate all of the ways that this administration has used their power for their gain and enrichment.”
El-Sayed said, “Well, look, let me just tell you the picture from my state. We‘ve been up and down the state. Now, I‘ve been at this for 15 months, been to 110 cities, over 500 public events. Everywhere I go, people say the same thing. It just shouldn‘t be this hard. It shouldn‘t be this hard to afford your groceries or fill up your tank, or worry about getting sick without having to worry about losing everything too. And we ran this campaign to do three things get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, pass Medicare for all. When I‘m elected to the U.S. Senate, the first thing we need to do is start holding the Trump Administration accountable.”
He added, “You know, when we win, God willing, I will take my seat as a member of a Senate majority that gives us subpoena power to be able to investigate all of the ways that this administration has used their power for their gain and enrichment, and against ours. And I think that means hauling them up to really understand all the conversations that were had about who got to get refunds after this terrible tariff policy, who got to get excluded from those refunds. It means hauling up people like RFK Jr.. And holding them accountable for the dosing of our public health apparatus, for which we now need to be dodging lettuce across the state of Michigan for fear of getting explosive diarrhea, which nobody ever thought would be a consequence of electing Donald Trump. But here we are. So it‘s those powers, and then the ability to set up to build the runway for a president in 2028 who can come in and start doing the things to hold big corporations accountable, to start enforcing antitrust policy, to start rethinking our tax system so it‘s less burdensome on everyday people. And we‘re taxing billionaires, their wealth, and to stand up for unions who have been critical to winning fair wages.”
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] 
