A Siena University poll showed that voters support having wealthy New Yorkers pay more in taxes to fund child care statewide, and favored Gov. Kathy Hochul in next year’s election.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won praise for his meeting with President Trump. But Michelle Wu, the like-minded mayor of Boston, said “flattery is not the way.”
Erik Bottcher, a Democrat from Chelsea, began his career as an L.G.B.T.Q. rights activist. He faces a growing field of rivals vying for a Manhattan House seat.
The mayor-elect’s official transition will be led by five women, including two former City Hall officials and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission.
Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City, riding a historic surge of enthusiasm. Our reporter Nicholas Fandos explains the results across all five boroughs broken down by precinct.
The team will be led by a veteran of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration, Zohran Mamdani said in his first news conference since being elected mayor.
The 34-year-old assemblyman won the Democratic primary by defying the city’s all-powerful establishment. He secured the mayoralty by delicately disarming it.
Many voters struggle with a fundamental question about Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy: Is a 34-year-old state assemblyman ready to lead the nation’s largest city?
Most of Andrew Cuomo’s income came from Innovation Strategies, a company created for his consulting work before he ran for mayor of New York City, a review of his tax returns showed.
The survey, released less than a week before Election Day, found that Zohran Mamdani had lost a bit of support, Andrew Cuomo had gained none and slightly more voters were undecided.