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April 9, 2021 Andrew Yang rolled up for opening day at Yankee Stadium on April 1 with the crackling force field of celebrity surrounding him. A bank of photographers and videographers walked backward before him. A small entourage of aides trailed behind. Fans, lined up for New York’s first professional baseball game with live spectators since Covid shut down the city, called out, “There’s the next mayor of New York!” and “Good luck!” People milled around to have th...

Yang returns to campaign trail following kidney stone Celine Castronuovo © The Hill Yang returns to campaign trail following kidney stone New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang (D) returned to the campaign trail Saturday, one day after he was hospitalized for a kidney stone. Yangs campaign manager, Chris Coffey, tweeted early Friday that Yangs public events for the day would be canceled after he began experiencing abdominal pain and "visited an emergency room where he w...

Andrew Yang to Goldman Sachs: You Think Tampa Beats NYC? Bloomberg 3/03/2021 Henry Goldman (Bloomberg) -- New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, who garnered name recognition during his presidential run, said he was “depressed” after a Goldman Sachs executive confided in him that the bank was opening a branch office in Tampa. Yang said reversing an outflow of businesses and talented workers from the city will be key to reviving New York City’s economy and re-establ...

Yang was traveling from Manhattan to Staten Island to tour the borough when a journalist was attacked by a man with a steel "broomstick."

Feb 25, 2021 Malik Hassan, who has defended the Hamas terrorist organization in the past, accused Yang of comparing the Palestinians to the Nazis. By JNS While touring businesses in Brooklyn, New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, also a former Democratic candidate for president, was confronted over his strong opposition to BDS by a group that included Malik Hassan from the Muslim American Society New York and the Democratic Socialists of America. According to a video published on Twitter...

New York City’s next mayor must lead the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic while tackling contentious issues like police accountability, homelessness and educational equity

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

Will the Queens special election be a 2013 replay? When supporters of ranked-choice voting make their case for why the new voting system is good for Black and Latino New Yorkers, they’ll often point to a specific race: the February 2013 special election in City Council District 31 in Queens. There, a white, Orthodox Jewish candidate named Pesach Osina came within 79 votes – less than 1 percentage point – of winning a Southeast Queens district that – as of the 2010 census – was 68...

“Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen - the fastest campaign to hit the matching threshold with the most grassroots donors!” wrote Yang, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in the last election.

Yang, a technology entrepreneur, announced in a Sunday tweet that his campaign had passed the threshold of receiving $250,000 from at least 1,000 donors in the city.  Now, each dollar from New York City residents in small contributions, with a maximum of $250, can be matched by up to $8 in public funds, reaching a maximum of $2,000 per contributor.  ADVERTISEMENT “Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen - the fastest campaign to hit the matching threshold with the most grassroot...