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Reply A new interactive map by the NYC Campaign Finance Board sheds light on which candidates each neighborhood is supporting. (NYC Campaign Finance Board) FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — More than 40 people have launched campaigns to be the next mayor of New York City, and a new interactive map shows which candidates have Forest Hills residents already pulling out their wallets. As of January, 198 people living in the Forest Hills ZIP code 11375 have donated to a mayoral campaign, according to the do...

Seven Democratic candidates running to become the next mayor of New York City appeared at a virtual town hall event to share their agendas for tackling the systemic obstacles facing Black women, who are doubly affected by racism and sexism and are often referred to as the backbone of the Democratic Party. At the “Follow Black Women Mayoral Candidate Town Hall,” billed as the first-ever mayoral forum created by and for Black women and hosted by Community Voices Heard Power, the candidates di...

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More than 30 people are running to be the next mayor of New York City, including a former Democratic presidential hopeful, several candidates with years of service in city government, and more than a few unknown longshots. Trying to follow the race, especially as it debuts a new experiment in ranked-choice voting, can be dizzying even for veteran New York political hands like myself. But it’s a race that all American Jews should care about — New York is, in its population and in its soul, a...

New York City’s next mayor will inherit a host of complex problems when he or she steps into office Jan. 1, but there’s one pressing issue that’s been given relatively short shrift on the campaign trail so far: crime.

Maya Wiley gets boost from powerful healthcare workers union in NYC mayoral bid Michael Gartland One of the city’s most powerful unions endorsed Maya Wiley in her mayoral run Friday, giving her campaign a much-needed shot in the arm after it failed to qualify for public matching funds earlier in the week. The endorsement from 1199 SEIU, which represents healthcare workers and is the largest union in the city, is a huge stamp of approval for Wiley and will translate into the un...

The endorsement from 1199 SEIU, which represents healthcare workers and is the largest union in the city, is a huge stamp of approval for Wiley and will most certainly translate into the union lending its get-out-the-vote muscle to her City Hall run.

Will voters choose a seasoned administrator, a veteran elected official, a business-friendly moderate or a flashy newcomer like Andrew Yang?

Yang appeared on the Making Sense podcast, which is hosted by Sam Harris, whose remarks about Islam and race have elicited outrage in the past and continue to rankle Muslims.

Yang takes hit for interview with ‘Islamophobe’ while skipping Muslim-sponsored forum Michael Gartland A Muslim political club is now questioning why mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang skipped out on its candidates’ forum last Wednesday — and why he instead spent part of the day schmoozing with a podcaster known for his inflammatory views on Islam and race. Last Wednesday — the same day Yang passed on attending a virtual mayoral forum sponsored by several Muslim groups — he...