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Maya Wiley has won the backing of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the New York City mayoral race. Will it be enough for a liberal to win?
Maya Wiley has won the backing of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the New York City mayoral race. Will it be enough for a liberal to win?
arrow Dianne Morales greets a new volunteer at Jackson Heights Greenmarket on Sunday Cindy Rodriguez / Gothamist Dianne Morales had a cold. Not COVID, she’s fully vaccinated, but when she arrived at the Jackson Heights Greenmarket on Sunday, acutely aware that this was a pivotal moment in the mayor’s race and for her candidacy, she was battling congestion and a slight sore throat. So she did what we’ve all learned to do: she wore two masks and proceeded with caution. Dressed in a white shirt, linen blazer, and black pants, she elbow-bumped and chatted with prospective vote...
Andrew Yang promised he would not take action on secular education in yeshivas. Eric Adams visited a Brooklyn yeshiva to learn about how it teaches science, math and English. Ray McGuire hosted a roundtable with rabbis in which he boasted about his comfort level praying at the Western Wall. These are just a few examples of the pointed outreach that leading candidates in the race for mayor of New York have been making to court the city’s Orthodox Jews, which historically have been an influential voting bloc in local elections. Experts estimate that New York’s 1.1 million Jews make up about...
After Decades Of Waning Influence, NYC Democratic Political Clubs Are Relishing The (Zoom) Spotlight March 4, 2021 2:52 p.m. In late January, the members of the Four Freedoms Democratic Club, a neighborhood political group on the Upper East Side, gathered on Zoom to interview two candidates for Manhattan Borough President: Mark Levine and Ben Kallos. Mike Shatzkin, 73, a semi-retired book publishing consultant, admired both men, who are popular City Council members in their last term. But pressed to choose just one, he planned to pick Levine. Then, something unexpected happened....