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POLITICO Get the New York Playbook PM 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 Facebook Andrew Yang changed direction today on two significant fronts, as we glance at our calendars and see primary day fast approaching. The cheerleading mayoral candidate, whose team has touted his message of positivity...

Print Continue to article content New York Mayoral Candidate Andrew Yang speaks to members of the media on April 05, 2021 in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Candidates gear up for first TV debate as mayor's race moves to prime time It’s game time in the New York City mayor’s race. On Thursday night, the eight top candidates in the Democratic primary will face off in the first televised debate of the campaign season. For some, the two-hour event is a chance to land direct punches in conflicts that have been simmering on the trail for months. For others, it’s an opportunity...

Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang’s plan to give cash to NYC’s poor remains vague, opponents call it a ‘gimmick’ Michael Gartland To much fanfare, Andrew Yang rolled out his mayoral campaign by vowing he’d repurpose his universal basic income plan for the poorest New Yorkers, but two months later, exactly how he intends to pay for that plan remains unclear. Yang formally made his City Hall run public on Jan. 14 in Morningside Park where he told reporters he’d recast the UBI plan that won him so much attention during his presidential run into a city program that would p...

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% Black, 16% Hispanic and just 11% white. Besides Osina, the other seven candidates on the ballot, i...

Yang appeared on the Making Sense podcast, which is hosted by Sam Harris, whose remarks about Islam and race have elicited outrage in the past and continue to rankle Muslims.