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Frank Morano prevails in Staten Island special election for NYC Council
The Republican radio host will finish out former Minority Leader Joe Borelli’s term.
2025 New York City Mayoral Election
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Here’s who’s running for New York City mayor in 2025
Get to know the candidates in a wide, weird and unsettled field.
2025 New York City Mayoral Election
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Endorsements in the 2025 New York City mayoral race
Labor unions, political clubs and power brokers. Stay up to date on which mayoral candidates are getting the coveted endorsements for 2025.
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DC 37, Tish James rebuke Cuomo in backing Adrienne Adams for mayor
The endorsements give the City Council speaker’s campaign a much-needed jolt of momentum.
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Ritchie Torres endorses Keith Powers in Manhattan BP race
The term-limited council member is coalescing support among Latino elected officials in his bid against state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal.
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NYC Veterans’ office gets ‘C’ grade in first City Council agency report card
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams first announced plans to grade city agencies in 2024.
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Mayor Cuomo and Gov. Hochul? It would be weird.
There’s still a lot of uncertainty in the New York City mayor race, but one thing is for sure: the mayor will have less power than his or her counterpart in Albany.
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Mark Levine nets building trades’ backing in comptroller bid
The Manhattan borough president is also backed by CWA and RWDSU, while Justin Brannan boasts 32BJ SEIU and the Hotel Trades Council.
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Brad Lander gets No. 1 ranking in another progressive group’s endorsement
Churches United For Fair Housing Action follows Make the Road Action in endorsing Lander first, and also endorsing Adrienne Adams and Zohran Mamdani.
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Andrew Cuomo denied millions in public matching funds for mayoral campaign
The former governor’s campaign won’t receive the funds until next month at the earliest.
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Does anyone want to be New York City’s tech mayor?
In 2021, Eric Adams ran on government modernization, but few candidates running to replace him are talking about picking up that work.
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Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro says Council Speaker Adrienne Adams ‘misused her city position’
The speaker removed two members who endorsed Andrew Cuomo for mayor from her budget negotiating team.
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A couple of Cuomo endorsers in the City Council lose budget negotiation roles
Selvena Brooks-Powers and Lynn Schulman were removed from the budget negotiating team after they endorsed Andrew Cuomo for mayor.
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As Trump admin moves to claw back more federal grants, NYC pursuing ‘legal recourse’
Mayor Eric Adams, who has increasingly aligned himself with the Trump administration, is pursuing legal action against feds’ move to revoke asylum-seeker grants.
New York City
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Pro-housing PAC will spend at least $500k on City Council races
Twelve candidates, including half a dozen in competitive districts, have won the support of the Abundant New York PAC.
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Eric Adams’ survival strategy
The mayor throws a Hail Mary pass, and he does it with renewed swagger.
2025 New York City Mayoral Election
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WFP’s mayoral strategy takes shape with slate endorsement
Brad Lander, Adrienne Adams, Zellnor Myrie and Zohran Mamdani accepted the party's slate endorsement on Sunday. It was all very harmonious.
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Meet the D.R.E.A.M. team
A new motto is catching on with anti-Andrew Cuomo and anti-Eric Adams progressives. Can organizers make their dream a reality?
New York City Council
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New York City Council 2025 primary races to watch
Dozens of candidates, millions in matching funds, 51 seats on the ballot.
Policy
NYC’s former census director pitches permanent city census office
City Council Member Julie Menin is planning for the next census.
