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Steven Romalewski @sromalewski.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

If Cuomo makes an active run in the general election, I wanted to get a clearer picture of how much he lost support from his base since the last time he ran in NYC (2018 primary vs Nixon) & how much Mamdani ate into that base. Maps below now use same layout, color scheme, & ranges.

2025 NYC mayoral first round results (w/same color scheme and layout as adjacent 2018 map)

2018 governor primary results in NYC (w/same color scheme and layout as adjacent 2025 map)

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Jacob Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

First post-Dem primary poll by Honan Strategy Group of 817 likely voters: If Cuomo runs as an independent, he is tied with Mamdani 39-39. Cuomo leads 44-40 if Adams drops out. Mamdani leads Adams 46-31 if Cuomo is out.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 21/06/2025

If Cuomo becomes mayor, there is a fair chance he runs for president in 2028. Even if he doesn't, his victory will be seen as a sign that Dems prefer experienced moderates to younger progressives. As @lauranahmias.bsky.social writes: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Those distinctions strike at the heart of not just the New York mayoral race, but also the future of the American Democratic party. After Kamala Harris’ loss in the 2024 presidential election to Trump, Democrats have been convulsed by debate and indecision over how best to regain their mojo with voters. Superstar congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has endorsed Mamdani, is in a camp that believes populist economic policies and progressive cultural ideas channeled via young candidates is the way forward. The other cohort, including older members of the party establishment, is of the view that a more centrist approach will prove the winning strategy.

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Programming note: former Governor Andrew Cuomo, candidate for New York City mayor, is joining Bloomberg radio live at 9 am.

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The first televised debate in NYC's Democratic mayoral primary contest is tonight, at 7 p.m., Early voting starts in 10 days! Read Bloomberg's guide to where the top candidates stand on the issues here: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Here’s Where NYC Mayoral Candidates Stand on Key Issues

From housing and childcare affordability to crime and immigration, here’s where the top nine Democratic candidates for NYC mayor stand

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

"Where's your consistency?" is the question Eric Adams says he would ask Andrew Cuomo at tomorrow night's Democratic primary debate. "I spend so much time fixing the governor's mess," Adams says.

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

NYC's Campaign Finance Board announces they are withholding a total of ~$1.3 million in public matching funds from Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign, after deciding they have reason to believe the campaign coordinated with an outside PAC supporting Cuomo's bid for mayor.

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

New York City's Campaign Finance Board is approving public matching funds payments for the June 2025 primary election today. City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams will receive more than $2 million in public matching money. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo will receive more than $1.7 million.

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Early voting in the June 2025 primary election starts two weeks from tomorrow. (!)

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Board members of "Restore Sanity NYC," the 501c4 that appears to be backing Andrew Cuomo's mayoral run, write an op-ed for AM New York announcing their organization, but it doesn't mention any candidates by name...https://www.amny.com/opinion/return-sanity-reclaim-new-york-citys-promise/

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Op-Ed | A return to sanity will reclaim New York City’s promise | amNewYork

New York has always been a beacon – vibrant, dynamic, sometimes chaotic, but always striving. But after generations of progress, it’s time to face the harsh

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Mayoral candidate Scott Stringer released his plan for reviving NYC's economy, called VIBE, or "Vision for International Business & Events." He wants to host the 2028 DNC, hold Comic-Con at Javits Center, and expand the Tribeca Film Festival scottstringernyc.com/wp-content/u...

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Some interesting findings from new Siena poll today: Bipartisan majorities support making it easier to cancel subscription services, providing free breakfast and lunch to every NY public school student, and restrictions on smartphone use in schools. scri.siena.edu/wp-content/u...

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

INBOX: Former NYC Mayor @billdeblasionyc.bsky.social will pay $329,794.20 in restitution and fines under a settlement with the City's Conflicts of Interest Board, after the Board found he had the city pay for his NYPD security during his ill-fated 2019 presidential campaign.

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

@bradlander.bsky.social says Eric Adams’s cooperation with the Trump Administration “has not helped New York City one iota.” “Eric Adams is running an experiment in how you could capitulate in the most humiliating ways imaginable,” Lander says.

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

City Comptroller Brad Lander outlines specific impact to New York City budget from President Trump’s “skinny budget” released this week: $266 million in CDBG grant funding $229 million in education funding $114 million in Ryan White funding $70 million for LIHEAP Section 8 funding

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"It seems like the governor's not really running, he's just going through the motions," Eric Adams says of Andrew Cuomo's platform on antisemitism. He accuses the governor of copying his policy platform on housing and mental illness. "All he's doing is looking at Eric Adams's playbook," Adams says.

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Jeffery C. Mays @jeffcmays.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

He's leading Democratic Primary contenders in all the polls, but former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is also petitioning to run on an independent ballot line in November called the "Fight and Deliver" line. Their symbol? A pair of boxing gloves. Read more in our upcoming newsletter, The Sprint for City Hall

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

NYPD Commissioner Tisch says she "was surprised" to find that ICE officers showed up at a police precinct over the weekend, because "the NYPD does not participate in civil immigration enforcement." NYPD "did not turn over to ICE the person that was in custody at that time," Tisch says.

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Mayor Adams, in press briefing at City Hall on assault on police officers late last week, says many people came up to him over the weekend pleading with him to be mindful of the teenaged alleged perpetrators' age. "I don't want to hear people tell me it's a young person," Adams says.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 30/04/2025

Ridership is a big concern for transit agencies in terms of their ability to raise funds from fares. But one thing that's been exciting to watch is that while many agencies, like DC's WMATA, have lower ridership on weekdays than they did pre-pandemic, they now have higher ridership on weekends!

DC's WMATA system, ridership on Wednesdays, 2019-2025. Ridership has been growing steadily, but still remains below 2019 levels on weekdays. Source: https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/ridership-portal/daily-summary.cfm

DC's WMATA system, ridership on Sundays, 2019-2025. Sunday ridership is now routinely higher than it was pre-pandemic thanks to investment in improved service. Source: https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/ridership-portal/daily-summary.cfm

DC's WMATA system, ridership on Saturdays, 2019-2025. Saturday ridership is now routinely higher than it was pre-pandemic thanks to investment in improved service. Source: https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/ridership-portal/daily-summary.cfm

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Food prices in the New York City metropolitan area have risen 25% since 2019, a new NY State Comptroller's office report finds. New York City's poorest residents spent 70% of their income on food in 2022-2023... www.osc.ny.gov/files/report...

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Cuomo's consulting company, Innovation Strategies, also advises the nuclear energy company NANO Nuclear Energy, according to NANO's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, @HellGateNY reports hellgatenyc.com/cuomo-nuclea...

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Cuomo's Nuclear Secrets

And more links for your Tuesday.

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The judges overseeing the cases have been colorful in their descriptions of the discovery process. One described it as a “quagmire” and “off the rails”, while another called it a “scorched-earth” strategy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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New Yorkers Are Paying Over $60 Million for Andrew Cuomo’s Legal Fights

Behind the scenes of Andrew Cuomo’s campaign to become New York City’s next mayor, the former governor is fighting an expensive legal battle to clear his name. New Yorkers are on the hook to pay for a...

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

"I must have spent a great part of the weekend reading up on tariffs and I still don't understand them," NYC Mayor Eric Adams says at his weekly press conference at City Hall.

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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Asked what his main issue is with the Democratic Party, Adams says it's not "clearly fighting on behalf of those items that are crucial to working class people: Affordability, public safety, housing." He then declines to at all criticize Trump's sweeping tariffs.

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Mayor Adams just delivered a brief address at Gracie Mansion after Judge Ho dropped charges against him, and at the end held up a Kash Patel book called "Government Gangsters" and said he found the "rationale" behind why the case happened in this book.

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Among @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social newly-announced campaign hires, former Andrew Cuomo press secretary Matt Wing.

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Dana Rubinstein @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Then the mayor says the following, re: Khalil: "What I'm finding surprising is the level of support you're all displaying, but I didn't see that support for me"

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Dana Rubinstein @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A reporter asks why Adams believes in due process for himself, but not apparently for Khalil. The mayor dodges the question. "The immigration deportation, how that's carried out, is the federal government's job."

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Dana Rubinstein @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

"This was politically motivated," the mayor says, who goes on to deride the prosecutors who brought his case. "This happened to an American."

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Dana Rubinstein @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

"I did nothing wrong," he says, adding "There was never a time" when he felt under Trump's thumb.

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

NYC Mayor Eric Adams, asked his opinion on detention of Mahmoud Khalil: "When it comes down to the determination of the status of who stays in the country and who doesn't stay in the country, that's the federal government."

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Brooklyn State Senator Zellnor Myrie, one of the nearly dozen candidates running for the Democratic nomination for mayor, unveils new proposal for universal afterschool and full day 3-K and pre-K: static1.squarespace.com/static/661d7...

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

At House hearing on sanctuary cities, Democratic Rep. Subramanyam repeatedly asks NYC Mayor Adams whether he has ever discussed his criminal case with anyone in the Trump Administration. Adams will not answer, says instead that the case is in front of a federal judge and he defers to the judge...

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

At House hearing on sanctuary cities, Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia excoriates NYC mayor Eric Adams, alleging he "is selling New Yorkers out." "I personally agree with the majority of New Yorkers and think Mr. Mayor that you should resign," Garcia said.

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Dana Hull @danahull.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

After publishing its big list of federal properties for sale, the GSA pulled some iconic buildings — including some agency headquarters — from the website. Story by my ace DC colleague @gregorykorte.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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More than 100 Buildings Vanish From Trump’s ‘For Sale’ Wishlist

The Trump administration’s list of federal properties that could be offered for sale quickly shrank from 443 to 320 in the span of hours Tuesday, as the General Services Administration pulled some ico...

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Jeff Coltin @jccoltin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Great pic here by Ben Fractenberg, highlighting how Adams did the video announcement behind closed doors and isn't taking questions.

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Nicholas Dawes @nicdawes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I love this explanation from @rachelholliday.bsky.social about what she does every day at @thecity.bsky.social donorbox.org/supportlocal...

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Robert Jameson @rhjameson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Trump's Federal Funding Pause Threatens State Financials -Agencies were instructed to ‘pause’ financial assistance -State and city federal grants totaled $1.1 trillion in 2023 www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @bloomberg.com @lauranahmias.bsky.social Shruti Singh, Sri Taylor

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Trump's Federal Funding Pause Threatens State Financials

President Donald Trump’s federal funding pause threatens more than $1 trillion that flows to states, cities and other local governments, putting everything from transit infrastructure to housing proje...

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Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

"He has no money or relatives here, but the shelter staff soon discovered that the diminutive, ever-polite man was also a consummate artist, single-mindedly focused on his craft." Beautiful photographs, beautiful stories in this story on NYC's newest residents... www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/n...

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8 Months Inside New York’s Migrant Shelters: Fear, Joy and Hope

A reporter and photographer documented life in New York City’s shelter system for migrants, through the eyes of those living there.

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