News & Politics
News & Politics
Who is Frank Carone, the former Eric Adams official who allegedly accepted $120K in bribes?
Mayor Eric Adams’ former chief of staff was arrested Wednesday in an alleged bribery scheme connected to a 2022 migrant shelter contract.
News & Politics
Micah takes Manhattan
Rep. Jerry Nadler’s chosen successor, Micah Lasher, kept the coveted seat for the West Side.
Politics
Cait Conley wins NY-17 primary to take on Lawler
The candidate with national backing hopes to flip the Hudson Valley swing seat.
News & Politics
Live blog: 2026 primary day in New York
A nice and humid referendum on the power of the left and the clout of Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Campaigns & Elections
Espaillat senior adviser made racist and Islamophobic comments about congressional challenger
The Congress member condemned the comments from Rusking Pimentel, who said that Darializa Avila Chevalier wants to replace Dominican New Yorkers with Muslims and Haitians.
2026 congressional midterm elections
Endorsement wars: Rep. Nydia Velázquez takes on Mamdani and the DSA
The member of Congress has endorsed against a bevy of DSA-backed candidates.
Politics
Speaker Julie Menin is quite wealthy
And other insights from Zohran Mamdani and other NYC elected officials’ financial disclosures.
Campaigns & Elections
Reformers are trying – again – to take over the Brooklyn Dems
The results of district leader races will determine whether Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn remains party leader
News & Politics
The 2026 NYC congressional primaries to watch
Six races that could transform the delegation.
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Espaillat, Avila Chevalier spar over gentrification in Harlem church
The Rev. Al Sharpton invited the rival congressional candidates to make their cases to the National Action Network on the last weekend before the primary.
2026 congressional midterm elections
AIPAC is helping boost Espaillat against DSA challenge
But who’s funding outside spending in the final week of the election isn’t always clear.
2026 congressional midterm elections
The bitter NY-21 primary highlights a fractured GOP
Republican voters in the North Country must decide between backing establishment Assembly Member Robert Smullen and President Donald Trump’s pick, Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino.
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JD Vance stumps for Long Island Republicans
The vice president campaigned for Mike LiPetri ahead of the midterms.
2026 New York state comptroller election
Who is running for New York comptroller?
Drew Warshaw and Raj Goyle are battling it out to unseat incumbent Tom DiNapoli.
2026 congressional midterm elections
Mysterious pro-Reynoso super PAC is funded by teachers union, not AIPAC
Real Fight NYC has the American Federation of Teachers as one of its donors – and Randi Weingarten does “not play with AIPAC.”
2026 congressional midterm elections
Super PACs have spent millions boosting Adriano Espaillat and Darializa Avila Chevalier. Both candidates think that’s super hypocritical!
Espaillat has benefited from more than $4 million in outside spending. Some $1 million has been spent on Avila Chevalier. Both traded barbs about that during a forthcoming BronxNet debate.
2026 congressional midterm elections
How are New York’s congressional candidates using AI? Debate moderators want to know
“What’s your chatbot?” is the new “what’s your bagel order?”
Opinion
Opinion: No one’s boosted Latino politics like DSA
Socialist politics has come full circle in the past 80 years.
Interviews & Profiles
Like AOC, but to the left
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a pro-Palestinian activist and self-described “millennial with an internet connection” is actually giving Rep. Adriano Espaillat a run for his money.
