Posted on 04/06/2026 11:58:45 AM PDT by Libloather
Soccer mega-fan Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an emergency order that will block events including some concerts and food festivals from city parkland during the FIFA World Cup.
The city Parks Department adopted the rule at the request of the NYPD, denying new permits for special events on park property during the tournament, which runs from June 11 to July 19.
The directive could block any events with 20 or more people that require the special permits which could even include birthday celebrations at the Big Apple’s 100 featured parks.
NYC Parks said it adopted the rule denying or restricting “special events” at the request of the police force because manpower will be stretched patrolling events tied to the soccer tournament as well as events commemorating America’s 250th anniversary.
“To more effectively deploy resources and control overtime costs, the NYPD has recommended that the department deny certain permit applications for new events between June 11, 2026 and July 19, 2026,” the parks agency said.
Applications for events not held last year could be rejected.
But permits for demonstrations will be exempt from the rule, the agency said.
“The events associated with the FIFA World Cup and United States 250th anniversary will require significant realignment and deployment of NYPD personnel, which will further divert resources from regular assignments and from crime-fighting, public safety, and counter-terrorism duties,” according to the rule, which was signed by Mamdani and Parks Commissioner Tricia Shimamura.
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Uh-huh. /s
When I was a pup, I found it more entertaining to pull the hoppers off a cricket or grasshopper and drop them in an anthill.
Would be a shame if you planned a protest and a picnic broke out!
Nice ... born at Manhattan General, 17th and 2nd Ave, 1953. Grew up on 12th st, 2nd&3rd ave
PS 19, Stuyvesant HS
Be in town late June thru early July.
Ready to support liberty and oppose this Mamdami regime during my stay.
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Have you revisited your old haunts lately? Is Bed-Stuy still a nice historic district?
That’s what a muslim mayor can do for NY’ers.
Don’t believe the fear mongers ... just keep your eyes open and don’t let anyone talk you into anything, just say I’m not from here and walk on. Plus, watch ur step when crossing streets, even if you have a green light. The bicycles are the worst.
Greatest city in the greatest country in the world.
Hotel prices are ludicrous however. I’ll be there July 4th week.
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Stuyvesant Sq is in Manhattan. Bed Stuy is Brooklyn.
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Doesn’t islam forbid this anyway ,LOL
Good advice!
New York, Alaska and the Grand Canyon remain on my shortlist
of ‘Maybe Someday’.
Russians Are Coming scene (but our Communist Mayor is already here).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMOyTzkam0s
Bed Stuy is Brooklyn not Manhattan and the last time I passed through on the LIRR the East NY stop had sevdral young women with strollers or toddlers. Oh they were white
RE: Been to NYC, never going back...
Like the Sandy Dennis speech to husband Jack Lemmon in the original The Out of Towners. Away from NYC to a place where decent people could live in peace and raise children.
(As Jack Lemmon was finally offered his brig promotion but would have to live in NYC)
I was hoping you would say no. I was hoping you would say that you and your wife don’t really belong in New York. That you wanted to live the rest of your life in Ohio. That you never wanted to see a big city again as long as you live. That you didn’t want to live here ...or any other place where people have to live on top of each other, and they don’t have enough room to walk or to breathe or to smile at each other. That you don’t want to step on garbage in the streets, or be attacked by dogs or have to give away watches in the middle of your sleep to men in black capes. That you were through traveling on trains that had no place to sit & no food to eat. And you didn’t want to fly in airplanes that have no place to land, and no luggage for you when you land there. That you wish you never came here, and the only thing in the world you really wanted was to pick up your wife and carry her to the airport and fly home... and live happily ever after. That’s what I was hoping you would say, George.
George Kellerman (Jack Lemmon): That’s funny... that’s what I told him, word for word.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We often named neighborhoods after the Catholic Parish which served the neighborhood. Yours would have been St Ann’s. Though I am certain you remember Sam’s Pizzeria on the corner of 14th and Third. And the Academy of Music and the Jefferson movie theaters and the Automat.
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“But the real reason for the EO is not that Mamdani hates gays and Puerto Ricans — he probably does — but hates American more than anything and he is not going the allow the USA’s 250th birthday party to interfere with the World Cup.”
Like I said, Mamdani’s real goal is to cancel the USA’s 250th celebration: https://nypost.com/2026/04/08/us-news/times-square-ball-drop-to-celebrate-uss-250th-still-going-forward-but-there-will-be-no-public-event/
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