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Could the Barron political dynasty be overthrown? Charles Barron is vying to win his wife Inez Barron’s New York City Council District 42 seat, which she is leaving this year due to term limits. The majority-Black district encompases East New York and its subsections such as Spring Creek and Starrett City. Charles Barron previously won the same seat in 2001. His wife won the Assembly seat in 2008 and they swapped seats when Charles was term-limited out of the City Council in 2013, with Inez r...

Presented by CVS Health You get a PAC, and you get a PAC, and you get a PAC! In the latest infusion of big money into the mayor’s race, an executive at an organization that lobbies on behalf of charter schools is launching a fundraising effort to boost the mayoral candidacy of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. Jenny Sedlis, executive director of StudentsFirstNY, is taking a leave of absence to run the new PAC, dubbed Strong Leadership NYC, our Sally Goldenberg reports. The group plans t...

Manhattan DA candidate Dan Quart endorsed by fellow state lawmaker John Liu Chelsia Rose Marcius State Sen. John Liu (D-Queens) has endorsed state Assemblyman Dan Quart (D-Manhattan), his fellow lawmaker and longtime political ally, in his quest to be the next Manhattan District Attorney. “For years, I have worked in partnership with Assemblymember Dan Quart on issues of fairness and equity for working people in New York City,” Liu said in a statement to the Daily News on Th...

Updated 9 hours ago Messages show the former prosecutor helping well-connected New Yorkers navigate her old sex crimes unit. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Linda Fairstein attends the Love Rocks NYC Pre-Concert Cocktail at CESCA Restaurant on March 15, 2018, in New York City. In 2015, when Harvey Weinstein had his first close shave with law enforcement, his legal team enlisted Linda Fairstein, the former New York City sex crimes prosecutor, to vouch for them with her old colleagues.  It loo...

Manhattan District Attorney Candidates Spar In First Televised Debate arrow The DA candidates at Tuesday nights forum. Eight candidates vying for the post of Manhattan District Attorney sparred in their first televised debate on Tuesday, offering voters the sharpest contrast to date between the candidates emphasizing decarceration and those who would bring a more centrist approach to one of the top law enforcement offices in the country. As the city grapples with a disturbing sp...

POLITICO Get the New York Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by CVS Health Scott Stringer’s mayoral campaign hemorrhaged support this weekend, with one endorser after another abandoning his...

less  money  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio rolled out a $98.6 billion “recovery budget” on Monday – the largest budget in the city’s history – but he’ll only get to spend half of it. Because six months into the next fiscal year, a new mayor will be taking office. So it seemed odd that the mayor’s executive budget was met with near silence from the eight leading Democrats who are hoping to inherit the city – and the $3.9 billion budget gap that de Blasio’s bean counter...

Race, crime, Trump loom over vote for Manhattan’s top prosecutor

By Linda So and Jason Szep NEW YORK (Reuters) - In 46 years, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has changed leaders only twice, in low-key elections focused heavily on fighting crime. Not this year. Whoever wins this election could transform law enforcement in America’s biggest city with policies aiming to imprison fewer people. The winner will also inherit one of the nation’s most politically fraught cases: a criminal investigation into former president Donald Trump’s...

Game of Thrones actor Nathalie Emmanuel at a Black Trans Lives Matter march in London, June 2020. (Hollie Adams/Getty) New York City officials have been accused of ignoring a proposal for a Black Trans Lives Matter mural outside the historic Stonewall Inn. The mural, which would depict trans and rainbow flags, was proposed by the non-profit Black Trans Nation and backed by out gay state senator Brad Hoylman and state assembly members Dan Quart and Catalina Cruz. In January, the politicians wro...