NEW YORK — Fear of crime is back as a political issue in New York City. For the first time in years it could be a prime factor in who voters pick as their next mayor. Early voting begins Saturday in the city’s party primaries. Ballots are being cast as
The candidate, speaking outside of his four-unit rowhouse in Bedford-Stuyvesant, unequivocally denied that he lives in the co-op he owns with his longtime partner in Fort Lee, N.J.
Mayor de Blasio tries to explain NYC ranked-choice voting using pizza toppings, vegan cheese
Few things are as controversial to New Yorkers as pizza.
Given Mayor de Blasio’s penchant for eating pizza with cutlery resulting in 2014′s Forkgate, it was déjà vu all over again when he suggested vegan cheese and clams as potential pie toppings in an ill-fated effort to explain the newfangled ranked-choice voting system for New York City primary election on June 22.
Hizzoner unveiled a bizarro chart of add-on’s as he tried to demonstrate how New York voters might negotiate the little-understood system that will be used to pick his successor on Election Day.
Hizzoner ranked green peppers No. 1 in what he called a nod to his southern Italian heritage, followed by olives, which he conceded could be a bit controversial.