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Mamdani raises $304,000 in first reelection filing
The New York City mayor plans on opting out of the public funding program in 2029 after bringing in big contributions.
Campaigns & Elections
Politics
Siffert, Martinez win tight Assembly races after recounts
Poised for November wins, attorney David Siffert would be New York’s first nonbinary state legislator as Patrick Martinez continues the Crowley dynasty.
Opinion
Opinion
Editor’s note: De Blasio talks to the Irish, Italians and Mamdani
The former mayor helped write the rules for the new era of populism in New York City.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s note: The view from the top of ‘The Dink’
It’s great for New York City to have a free municipal observation deck.
New York City
Personality
‘Now, everyone talks about housing’
A Q&A with New York Building Congress President and CEO Carlo Scissura on the city’s construction boom.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s note: Woke 1 was crazyyyy
Candidates are finding the right words to write off the recent past.
Albany Agenda
Politics
A cheat sheet to super PACs in the 2026 New York primaries
It’s the wild west out there for outside spending.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s note: Mamdani’s blessed by good sports fortune
First with Arsenal, then the Knicks, the mayor is seizing the moment.
2026 congressional midterm elections
Politics
Avila Chevalier attended the Oct. 8 pro-Palestinian rally Lander condemned
While the two congressional candidates are campaigning together, they’ve disagreed on their Israel politics.
Zohran Mamdani
Politics
Nobody’s happy about Mamdani’s scaled down Puerto Rican event
Reps. Adriano Espaillat and Nydia Velázquez are doing their own event
Opinion
Opinion
Editor’s note: Goodbye to Al Sharpton’s House of Justice
He’s moving into a converted firehouse on West 124th Street.
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Zohran Mamdani
Politics
It’s time for Zohran’s Charter Revision Commission
It’s not a year in New York City unless there are at least two Charter Revision Commissions happening, and ideally they are dueling.
Personality
Personality
How the 2003 murder at City Hall shaped politics today
A Q&A with “Rorschach: Murder at City Hall” Executive Producer Brent Katz on his podcast on the death of James E. Davis.
Opinion
Opinion
Editor’s note: Celebrating press freedom at the LCA Show
We should err on the side of press access, even if it makes for some bad videos.
Read First
Politics
DSA Assembly candidate changes his defense of Bondi internship
Defending against a super PAC attack, Conrad Blackburn tried to spin the work he was doing for the ex-Trump AG.
Read First
Politics
FanDuel super PAC enters UWS Assembly duel
Stephanie Ruskay and Eli Northrup have both been boosted by outside spending in the race to replace Assembly Member Micah Lasher.
Campaigns & Elections
Politics
Goldman trails Lander by 5 points in supportive super PAC poll
The incumbent held a rally with unions and Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday.
Campaigns & Elections
20th Anniversary
Who’s going to be the next New York attorney general?
Some of the favorites to succeed Letitia James already had a brief trial run.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s note: Introducing Heard Around Town
We’re launching a premium newsletter with all the whispers fit to print.
Heard Around Town
Politics
Two Brooklyn legislators got in a tussle. Now they’re running against each other.
“I’m gonna beat her up – at the poll,” Mercedes Narcisse says of Monique Chandler-Waterman
