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There’s never been a woman elected Mayor of New York City and four of the candidates attempting to change that fact through next year’s election met for a forum Tuesday night hosted by Amplify Her, an organization dedicated to electing more women to office in New York City. Former New York City Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia, nonprofit executive Dianne Morales, former city Veterans Affairs Commissioner Loree Sutton, and Maya Wiley, a civil rights attorney and former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio, participated in the forum. All four are Democrats and all are first-time candidates...

From Fallujah to City Hall: A Marine's Uphill Run to Be Mayor of New York Zach Iscol attends the 7th Annual Headstrong Gala at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers on Oct. 17, 2019, in New York City. (Photo by Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images for The Headstrong Project) 17 Dec 2020 He's never run for office before, but former Marine Capt. Zach Iscol, 42, said his experience trying to bring peace to an Iraqi town east of Fallujah "could translate well" in his effort to be the next mayor of New York City. He said his experience working with a unit of about 35 Marines and 350 Iraqi soldiers in the town of al-...

Stephen Ross of Related (Getty, Wikipedia Commons) After 12 years of loving Michael Bloomberg and seven despising Bill de Blasio, some titans of real estate are ready to splurge on a pro-business mayoral candidate. But which one? And can real estate’s money make a difference anyway? Don’t count on it. First, the news: Related Companies Chairman Stephen Ross just poured $1 million into a campaign fund to influence the city’s 2021 elections for mayor and City Council, the New York Times reported Monday. Jack Cayre of Midtown Equities gave $100,000 to the independent expenditure Common Sen...

It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do these kinds of important stories. So please click here. Permanent “open streets.” “Safe routes to parks” that connect communities to open space via safe-cycling and traffic-calming infrastructure. “Complete Streets” that discourage reckless driving. These are some ideas for the city’s streetscape forwarded by a diverse field of Democratic mayoral candidates — 11 and counting —  10 of whom responded to a questionnaire from Streetsblog. With the coronavirus pandemic having decimated city budgets and upended planning, t...

SHARE: The visuals for Shaun Donovan’s campaign kickoff event to be the next mayor of New York City couldn’t have been more New York. It opened with a prayer from the Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, who has been a leader on affordable housing in Brooklyn for more than 40 years. And Donovan spoke on the rooftop of Via Verde, a subsidized housing development in the South Bronx, with the Manhattan skyline rising over his shoulder.  But the endorsements that Donovan rolled out on Tuesday told a different story, of somebody whose closest political connections and strongest support aren’t based ...