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Virulent anti-Mamdani push poll combines questions about his actual positions (housing affordability, millionaire tax) with Islamophobic questions implying that he supports "making halal mandatory in all city restaurants" and investigating "Israel's role in 9/11" (via @jccoltin.bsky.social)

After the City Council won the lawsuit blocking Mayor Eric Adams' efforts to let ICE on Rikers, Cabán and the council are hoping to add to sanctuary city laws and speficially block ICE from all DOC facilities.

NEW: Brian Romero, a DSA member who worked as chief of staff to Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas, is running for González-Rojas' Assembly seat, which she'll be vacating to run for state Senate. Romero is applying for DSA's endorsement in the race, though he might not get it.

Man in the black and white flag mask biked in circles around the Zohran Mamdani presser in Jackson Heights this morning calling the mayoral candidate “a terrorist.” After a minute or two of that, the muscular man screamed at him to get out of here with his bigoted shit.

Filings 8/19-9/29: Mamdani: Raised $431,567 (stopped 9/5); Spent $1,347,344; 6,543 contributors; $63 avg.; 51% NYC Cuomo: Raised $939,857; Spent $1,513,042; 2,754 contributors, $325 avg.; 75% NYC Sliwa: Raised $429,472; Spent $1,542,993; 4,240 contributors, $100 avg.; 60% NYC

As an activist in 2019, Mamdani shamed the pols who voted to build the borough-based jails. Now on the cusp of being mayor, he’s shed his revolutionary No New Jails pose for a stance more akin to a traditional liberal reformer. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

"The major players behind an ill-fated deal to make Mayor Eric Adams the Trump administration’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia have financial ties to a developer trying to win approval for a New York City casino." What a lede.

Steve Witkoff, Frank Carone, Vito Pitta... a look at all the threads connecting Adams, Trump, and a casino bid in the Bronx: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

It's interesting that both Mamdani's supporters (www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...) and his opponents (nypost.com/2025/09/26/u...) are trying to persuade homeowners by highlighting his support for Local Law 97, which requires larger buildings to reduce their emissions.

A NYC corrections investigator shared sensitive data with federal authorities about two migrants in custody, unwittingly violating sanctuary laws and helping ICE agents arrest one of the men.

Layla Law-Gisiko filed in Tony Simone's Assembly district. It could be open, since Simone is considering the special election for Hoylman-Sigal's Senate seat, or the open primary for Nadler's House seat. Law-Gisiko finished second to Simone in the open #AD75 primary in 2022.

The City Council is expected later this week to approve the "Just Home" plan to build a housing complex in the Bronx for ex-inmates with serious health issues, bucking a last-ditch effort from Mayor Adams’ administration to block the project. www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/23/n...

Bahaha @cityandstateny.bsky.social

One single write-in vote was enough to elect Yamid Jaramillo a Democratic district leader in East Harlem: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams denied that he would decide whether to continue his reelection campaign after conducting a poll — just a day after his campaign spokesperson said that was his plan.

My prayers, answered. Cuomo has an education plan!!!!!! Let’s take a look: Idea 1: close every single public school and reopen them as a SHSAT or charter school. This is a supercharged version of the RADIOACTIVE peak ed reform policies. Most ppl like their kids school! nypost.com/2025/09/08/o...

The BOE voted resoundingly to approve the ballot proposals, in a blow to Speaker Adrienne Adams and the City Council. Only one vote in opposition. Background: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch started the Citizens Budget Commission breakfast saying “In my opinion crime went up as a result of the drastic changes being made in our criminal justice laws in New York state, not as a result of the pandemic.” www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Meanwhile on that slender riotous island …

“I think Mayor Adams did this presser to get a better offer from Trump,” Council Member Shaun Abreu tells me — a former Adams ally who’s now endorsed Mamdani, expressing what seems to be a widely held view in the political class: they still think Adams *could* drop out later.

“I want to be clear: Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar. I am in this race. And I’m the only one who can beat Mamdani,” Adams said. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Ran into Gov. Kathy Hochul walking up Third Ave, just as I left the PIX 11 studio. What’s happening with the mayor? I ask. “That’s what I just said, what’s happening with the mayor? She responded. “We’re not fucking selling out our city.”

POLITICO: PRESSURE BUILDS on Hochul, Schumer, Jeffries Amid Trump Meddling in Mayor Race… https://bit.ly/466BlAK

Theoretically, a one-on-one race with Mamdani would be a best case scenario for Cuomo. Practically, it seems unlikely (especially with Sliwa). And politically, Trump's now-public involvement would be toxic to some would-be Cuomo voters.

The result of Rev. Rubén Díaz's meeting? "It was unanimous... they all asked for Adams to pull out," he tells me. "Because the polls show that Adams has no chance... We don’t even know if we could beat Mamdani. But at least if he’s out, we may have an opportunity.”

“I’m surprised how the standards of reporting in The New York Times has flopped so much,” Adams says this morning in Qns. “I’ve never asked for a job with HUD, I’ve never been promised a job with HUD, I have not communicated with the president.” Asked about *other* admin jobs, the mayor walks away.

Seeing a #NY12 poll for what seems to be for Micah Lasher. Asks favorability for Lasher, Carolyn Maloney, Bores, Menin, Nadler, Bloomberg and Hochul… also message tests for Lasher, and asks for positions on Israel and Palestine.

SCOOP, with Nick Reisman and Emily Ngo: Eric Adams has been offered a position at the HUD, according to a person with direct knowledge of the offer. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Credit to PIX 11's Dan Mannarino for asking the mayor about his trip to Florida amid drop-out rumors - and then noting that no, we actually can't just take his word on things:

It's just like the Democratic Party to be worried because their nominee is comfortably *winning* a high-profile race. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

“It’s the most coveted and arguably important congressional seat in New York because of the history of political influence from that seat, and also the fundraising base that comes with it.” On the upcoming #NY12 primary to succeed Nadler: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

“Mayor Adams is in Florida for the day attending to a personal matter. He will return this evening,” the mayor’s office says after I asked. Campaign spokesperson also says it’s personal, and not campaign related and he’s not fundraising.

POLITICO PLAYBOOK: 5 things to watch as NYC mayoral race barrels toward THE END… https://bit.ly/3UTa2oH

NEW: AG Pam Bondi is meeting with NYPD leadership today in New York City, at a particularly tense time www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Zohran Mamdani is on McGuinness Blvd in Greenpoint with local electeds who are contrasting the Democratic nominee to Eric Adams, whose top aide allegedly was bribed to kill a street safety redesign here and Andrew Cuomo “who only cares about driving his muscle car around,” CM Restler says.

Contributions raised in the last five weeks: Mamdani: $1,051,200 Cuomo: $507,660 Adams: $420,886 Sliwa: $407,332 Walden: $8,313 www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Mayor Adams' camp last month paid $177,000+ to Brianna Suggs, his fundraising coordinator whose home got raided in late 2023, first exposing the Turkey probe. She's gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars from Adams' 2025 camp alone, but this is by far the largest single payment.

"If that was me accepting a bribe for something, I'd remember," Ingrid Lewis-Martin's lawyer recounts her saying - downplaying the alleged $2,500 payoff from Gina Argento as money exchanged between longtime friends. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Proud to go on @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social to provide my personal expertise on the news! ny1.com/mornings-on-...

Ingrid Lewis-Martin's defense is that she was simply "a fixer," helping people with city bureaucracy. The alleged bribes are *relatively* minor, which is why Bragg's office is seeking lower level felony charges. More: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

"I'm just a dog lover," First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro told me and @jccoltin.bsky.social at City Hall just now when asked about the new Ingrid Lewis-Martin indictments. (The context is that there was also a dog present for this exchange).

Four(!) new separate bribery schemes alleged in Adams' City Hall, all surrounding former top aide Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the Manhattan DA alleges. Reading through now for more details. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

who could forget the critically acclaimed wu-tang track “campaign reelection eric adams mayor”

I’m on @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social this morning to talk about Chipgate, coming City Hall corruption indictments, Cuomo’s hope of a Trump bump and more in NYC politics.

Eric Adams' former top aide to face new charges.

Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Mayor Eric Adams' former top aide, is going to face new criminal charges tomorrow, her lawyer tells me. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Today: - @elizabethkim.bsky.social & @jccoltin.bsky.social on the NYC mayoral race, - NY's role in the redistricting fight kicked off by Texas, - Students head back to campus Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @wnyc.org

Catch me on @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social at 10am with @elizabethkim.bsky.social on 93.9 FM and WNYC.org to talk about the how the Hamptons is the hot spot in the NYC mayoral race: