1+ week, 3+ day ago (30+ words) On National Coming Out Day last month, Zohran Mamdani made a direct appeal to LGBTQ voters. He released a video tribute to Sylvia Rivera, an icon of the 1970s trans ......

4+ week, 17+ hour ago (32+ words) Fifty years ago, on Nov. 10, 1975, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a patriotic New York liberal, led the West's fight against the UN's Zionism is racism resolution. Moynihan called this assault ......

3+ week, 5+ day ago (29+ words) We come from two faiths often cast as opposites and from two different immigrant journeys to this country. We write together because New York is being torn apart " not ......

3+ week, 5+ day ago (29+ words) We come from two faiths often cast as opposites and from two different immigrant journeys to this country. We write together because New York is being torn apart " not ......

3+ week, 4+ day ago (125+ words) A high stakes and tumultuous New York City mayoral election comes to an end this evening, with polls across the five boroughs closing at 9 pm. Going into the final day, most polls showed Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the lead, with independent candidate Andrew Cuomo in second place. Over the last several days, Cuomo has targeted conservatives and Republican voters in an effort to close the gap by taking votes from GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa. Interest in the race has been extraordinarily high, with more than 735,000 voters casting ballots during early voting. Tonight, New York decides. Follow along here for real time updates on numbers as they come in and what is happening in the field as the candidates await the results:...

3+ week, 5+ day ago (19+ words) Up-to-the-minute NYC election results, including the mayoral race with Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani, and Curtis Sliwa....

1+ week, 6+ day ago (597+ words) With less than two months to go in his term, Mayor Adams met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, drawing a contrast with his successor, Zohran Mamdani, who has vowed to direct the NYPD to arrest the PM if he sets foot in New York under his administration. In an interview with the right-wing Israel Hayom newspaper before his sitdown with Netanyahu, Adams even encouraged the Israeli leader to come to New York for Mamdani's Jan. 1 inauguration. "I believe the prime minister should visit the city. I think he should start with the inauguration ceremony of Mamdani in the presence of the City Council on January 1 to send a strong message to the largest Jewish community outside Israel," Adams is quoted as saying. "He needs to make clear to the entire community that he will continue visiting the city…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago (541+ words) Indepedent mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo asked Brighton Beach residents for their support in an attempt to siphon conservative Russian voters from Republican Curtis Sliwa on Friday as he seeks to gain ground on frontrunner Zohran Mamdani. In the final days of the mayoral election, Cuomo has pitched himself to conservatives and Republicans, arguing the Democratic nominee Mamdani is "dangerous" to New Yorkers and can only be defeated by him, not Sliwa. "Curtis Sliwa can only make Zohran Mamdani win," Cuomo said. "Don't believe me, believe President Trump, if you're a Republican. President Trump said Curtis Sliwa is not ready for prime time, and a vote for Sliwa is a vote for Mamdani." The ex-governor munched on Russian dumpings at a restaurant in the neighborhood before his remarks. He was introduced by Republican Councilmember Inna Vernikov, who derided Mamdani and his…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (394+ words) The'federal'takeover'of'New'York'is no longer theoretical. Even as we begin a'new chapter under Zohran Mamdani " elected on a promise to defend immigrant'New'Yorkers "federal agents recently descended on Canal St., detaining street vendors in Chinatown'while terrified residents looked on. This is the street-level enforcement that many thought our'city would be spared. And yesterday, White House border czar Tom Homan said, "We're increasing enforcement presence in New York City again because they're a sanctuary city." Our city'is not alone.'Federal'agents have deployed to Portland, despite courts' attempt to block them. Upstate,'ICE raided a plant in Cato, detaining 68 workers, leaving children to return to empty homes. In Saratoga County,'more than 100 ICE arrests took place through July. In'New'York'City, walk into 26'Federal'Plaza and you'll see what an occupation looks like. Masked agents lurk in hallways, waiting to grab people leaving immigration court. In September, these…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago (975+ words) Democrat Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, becoming the youngest man picked to lead the five boroughs in modern history in what is widely seen as watershed moment for his party's surging left wing. Mamdani " who will now take office Jan. 1 as the youngest mayor in well over a century " was expected to address a crowd at his election night party in Brooklyn late Tuesday night. Cuomo, who campaigned as an independent, didn't immediately comment. Curtis Sliwa, the Republican mayoral nominee clinched third place in the race, according to unofficial tabulations. Mamdani's victory was propelled by nearly record-setting levels of voter participation, with more than 2 million New Yorkers casting ballots in Tuesday's election " the highest turnout in a local race since at least the 1969 mayoral contest. Marking the conclusion of the most high-octane New York…...