#new-york-city-politics

#new-york-city-politics

"When I left, New York was the place you wanted to be, and now people just don't speak well of it. But we're going to bring it back, and we're going to bring it back strong," Trump said of the city at a 2024 Madison Square Garden campaign rally. Since then, his administration has made big moves in New York City by dropping corruption charges against the city's mayor, fighting the city's congestion pricing program.

As the curtain goes up on the post-Labor Day push to Election Day, Mayor Adams, tanking in the polls, is making unsubtle tribal appeals to the Black communities that powered him to victory four years ago, frequently reminding voters that he is second Black mayor in city history after David Dinkins. But political leaders in vote-rich Harlem, Central Brooklyn, and Southeast Queens neighborhoods are increasingly connecting with Zohran Mamdani or Andrew Cuomo, and polls suggest that voters are doing the same.

Democratic socialists in New York City plan to challenge five House incumbents, including Hakeem Jeffries, empowered by Zohran Mamdani's recent primary win.

"All of these things sound good because the affordability issue is real. I grew up in poverty. I grew up on the verge of homelessness. I know what it is to be struggling. I know where poverty is. He grew up in luxury. He doesn't know the real story of a New Yorker and how difficult it is. I think nothing is more harmful than promising things to people you know you can't deliver. That's wrong to do, and I'm going to let New Yorkers know that."

The partnership between Zohran Mamdani and New York City Comptroller Brad Lander doesn't just showcase an unusual alliance. It provides a road map for Democrats, whose future success will require a different kind of politics than the left currently favors: one that sets aside purity tests and commits to building coalitions across ideological divides.

Zohran Mamdani posts Indian men cosplaying Jews, spinning dreidels and lighting the menorah. Our holidays and traditions are sacred and not for your comedic pleasure, Zohran Mamdani - this is sick.

"Wynn had joined Related on the project because it initially included a casino, but that proved to be a no-go for the local City Council member, Erik Bottcher."

While vast in geography, the core of Cuomo's support comes from the Black electorate in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. The former governor also performs strongly in white-majority homeowner areas.

I lost a button, joked Lander after being released from detention, cutting through the anxious mood as his arrest sparked major reactions among activists and politicians.