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Are You a New Yorker? If You Weren’t Born Here, Jennifer Lopez Says No. nytimes.com/2026/06/05/nyreg…
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Zohran Mamdani posts about his wife on Instagram after receiving questions about her online:
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Zohran Mamdani is walking across the Brooklyn Bridge at sunrise to give a speech at City Hall, signaling a new day for New York City.
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Cynthia Nixon hosted a fundraiser for Zohran Mamdani. (She donated to Lander’s comptroller campaign in 2021 but not to his 2025 mayoral campaign.)
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Zohran Mamdani says Cuomo doesn’t care about rent stabilized apartments and is just targeting him for political reasons: “I live rent free in his head.”
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Elizabeth Warren, asked about Hochul and Jeffries not endorsing Mamdani yet, says Mamdani is on the frontline fighting for working class families and it’s a message Democrats should embrace.
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I just spoke with Curtis Sliwa who insists once again that he's staying in the race. He also confirms that he'd bring his six cats to Gracie Mansion: "These are family members." Apollo, Athena, Lo-Key, Tiny, Ajax and Mittens who is "begging to get on Ozempic."
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Tulashi Chitrakar says he’s a first time voter who left work early to come to Mamdani’s rally. He works in IT and is from an immigrant family from
Nepal: “It should not be a city of millionaires and billionaires. It should be for all.”
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Emily Ratajkowski posts a video with Zohran wearing a Hot Girls for Zohran shirt; she has 29 million followers on Instagram.
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Zohran Mamdani’s campaign:
*New* Cuomo will propose a $20 minimum wage for New York City at a rally with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union: nytimes.com/2025/05/28/nyreg…
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*NEW* Mayor Eric Adams Calls Off Unpopular Library Budget Cuts: nyti.ms/3LvwrUS
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A spokeswoman for The Times of London: “The Times has apologised to Bill de Blasio and removed the article immediately after discovering that our reporter had been misled by an individual falsely claiming to be the former New York mayor."
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Nearly 80,000 people voted on the first day of early voting today, compared to 15,000 four years ago when the Eric Adams v Curtis Sliwa matchup received far less attention.
Day 1 complete!
•Manhattan – 4,563
•Bronx – 2,079
•Brooklyn – 3,751
•Queens - 3,441
•Staten Island - 1,584
Total Number of Early Voting Check-Ins 15,418
*Unofficial as of close of polls
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For the story, I spoke to the family of Didarul Islam, a police officer who was killed in the Midtown Manhattan shooting in July. Mamdani has visited the family several times and they shared photos of him with the officer’s sons:
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Leaders We Deserve, the David Hogg group, gave $300,000 to a WFP super PAC supporting Zohran Mamdani and a slate of anti-Cuomo candidates this month, making the group the largest contributor to a Mamdani-affiliated super PAC.
An evening in Washington Square Park with @davidhogg111.
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*NEW* Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander will cross-endorse each other in the New York City mayor's race on Friday, joining forces under ranked choice voting in an effort to beat Andrew Cuomo: nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyreg…
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Zohran Mamdani and Michael Blake are in the Bronx to cross endorse. Mamdani says: “My supporters should rank Michael Blake on their ballot.” He says Blake systematically picked apart Cuomo’s record at the first debate.
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Here’s a demo of New York City’s new automatic side loading garbage truck lifting large on street containers. A pilot program is expanding to all of Community Board District 9 in West Harlem.
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Maya Wiley endorses Zohran Mamdani as her first choice in the mayor’s race. She was the leading progressive candidate in the 2021 race and finished third after Adams and Garcia:
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*New* Zohran Mamdani and Michael Blake will cross endorse in the mayor’s race: nytimes.com/2025/06/16/nyreg…
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Zohran Mamdani is pressed on La Mega Radio if he lied when he said his aunt stopped taking the subway after the Sept. 11 attacks. Mamdani said: "It's not a lie. My father's cousin is my aunt." He said that was how he referred to her growing up.
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Former Mayor Bill de Blasio says on NY1 that Mamdani's plans are achievable. He said he froze rents on rent stabilized apartments and Mamdani could do the same. He said Mamdani's proposal for city owned grocery stories was "wise and thoughtful."
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Mayor Eric Adams just told a story again at a public safety ceremony about how when his son Jordan was born and coming out of "his mother's womb," Adams moved the doctor's hand away and said, "I want to be the first person to touch my son."
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Zohran Mamdani gets a huge round of applause when he says he won’t let ICE grab people off the streets and then turns to Cuomo: “There are no kings whether that’s Donald Trump or Andrew Cuomo or the Republican billionaires who fund both of their campaigns.”
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*New* Zohran Mamdani’s campaign says it has hit the $8 million spending cap for the general election and will ask supporters to stop donating: nytimes.com/2025/09/05/nyreg…
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Zohran Mamdani visited the home of Officer Didarul Islam in the Bronx around 9 a.m. after arriving at JFK Airport this morning, via @ParnellWesley. He stayed with the family for roughly an hour and could be seen embracing a family member before entering his vehicle.
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The first cross endorsement in a New York City mayor’s race: Mamdani & Lander appear together the day before early voting starts.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul, under a palm tree in Puerto Rico, is greeted with chants of “tax the rich” when she enters.
“I hear you,” she says, adding that she’s the type of person who: “The more you push me, the less I’m going to do what you want.”
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I asked Cuomo if he’s worried about Mamdani, Adrienne and Lander holding an event like this and campaigning together. He says he doesn’t know how the other candidates can align themselves with Mamdani’s positions on Israel.
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One of my least favorite NYC rituals is when cars inch closer and closer to you in a menacing way when you’re walking in a crosswalk, especially when I’m with my preschooler.
Are you really in that much of a rush? Are you mad that we’re walking at a normal kid pace?
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Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for mayor, said Mamdani has the momentum: "The millennials and hipsters are the majority now, not the baby boomers." He said Cuomo "looked grumpy and angry on the campaign, like 'Why do I even have to deal with these peasants?'"
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This is a question I get not infrequently. He had 16 cats when I visited his studio in 2021. He says his wife took in a lot of cats during the pandemic and nursed them back to health and started adopting them out in pairs. They kept the older, sicker ones.
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*New* Mamdani Wins Nadler’s Endorsement as He Seeks to Unify Democrats: nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyreg…
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Mamdani, if Elected Mayor, Pledges to Order N.Y.P.D. to Arrest Netanyahu with @Jonesieman: nytimes.com/2025/09/12/nyreg…
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Zohran Mamdani, asked on MSNBC what's the national lesson from his campaign, says it's a "larger referendum about where our party goes" and Dems must "move our political instinct from lecturing to listening." He says he learned from Trump voters to focus on the cost of living.
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Zohran Mamdani, asked on MSNBC if he wants to be endorsed by Jeffries and Schumer and other Democratic leaders, says yes - he hopes it's an "ever expanding coalition" so he can achieve his agenda.
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Bernie Sanders says the mayor’s race is a “test case” for whether we still live in a democracy.
“What are the oligarchs afraid of? Seems to be a nice guy… They’re afraid of Mr. Mamdani becoming an example of what can happen all over this country.”
The crowd stands and cheers.
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Mamdani in Harlem: “My mother called me the other day and asked me, ‘Which polls do we believe?’ I said none of them. The reason you will find me speaking to New Yorkers at 2 in the morning and 9 in the morning is we want to make sure we talk to everyone before polls close at 9.”
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Zohran Mamdani, asked about his vices on the Hell Gate podcast, says he has one Red Bull per week. He compares it to the Xanax he kept nearby in case he had claustrophobia on the subway. When he’s having a hard day, he asks: “Is it hard enough to open the Red Bull?”
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🚨 NYC trash news: the first shared on-street containers, known as Empire Bins, are being installed in West Harlem. The city’s first trash containerization pilot begins in June in @ShaunAbreu’s district.
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Zohran Mamdani says The New York Times editorial board is a dozen people and “they have a right to their opinion,” but his ideas are achievable and it’s a million plus voters who will decide this election.
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The chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, an ally of Cuomo and Eric Adams, says she’ll support Mamdani in the general election.
Zohran Mamdani campaigned on making our city more affordable, a message that resonated with voters, who decisively chose him tonight. I support Mamdani in the general election.
To everyone who had reservations, I ask you to put them aside in this moment and come together...
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Zohran Mamdani said that Cuomo is having a hard time accepting his loss: “I think he’s struggling to come to terms with what Tuesday meant. We spent an entire campaign being told that it was inevitable for Andrew Cuomo to be the next mayor, and he believed that himself.”
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If Mamdani wins, the two largest cities in Britain and the United States would be led by liberal, Muslim sons of immigrants, both of whom would have risen to power in part by resisting a rightward lurch in their countries: nytimes.com/2025/11/01/world…
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*NEW* Could New York City finally get trash containerization like other big cities across the globe? The Adams administration says it’s possible, but would require losing 150,000 parking spots: nyti.ms/41YFrYF
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Zohran Mamdani is holding an event with a New Yorker who was homeless and affected by Cuomo’s cuts to the Advantage rental assistance program. We wrote about that here: nytimes.com/2025/06/22/nyreg…
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Lots of cheers for Zohran Mamdani who says: “I have the guts to ask for your endorsement in person.”
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Letitia James, the state attorney general, releases her mayoral slate:
1) Adrienne Adams
2) Lander
3) Mamdani
4) Myrie
And knocks Cuomo: "I am very familiar with strongmen from Queens interested in protecting their legal liabilities and their reputations by getting into office."
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The mayor's management report is out for the first full year under Eric Adams. One statistic that immediately jumps out: the timeliness rates for applications for cash assistance and SNAP (food stamps) at 29 percent & 40 percent, versus 95 percent & 93 percent in 2019.
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Zohran Mamdani says he’s told his supporters to vote for Adrienne Adams as part of the WFP slate, he helped her fundraise and he seems very open to cross endorsing her too.
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Zohran Mamdani, sitting on the left, visits a mosque in Puerto Rico. The message touches some relevant themes: the difficulty of trying to make change, abolishing poverty, the plight of the Palestinians, millions of dollars spent on misinformation.
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Here’s the logo for New York City’s new branding campaign. What do we think of the font/design?
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Mamdani Will Visit 5 Boroughs on Anti-Trump Tour. He’ll highlight parts of Trump’s agenda that he says hurt the city and announce endorsements from Ruth Messinger and others: nytimes.com/2025/08/11/nyreg…
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Mayor Eric Adams has lost Ms. Rachel, a top power broker among NYC toddlers.
👀 Tiktok + YouTube star Ms. Rachel calls on Mayor Adams to restore pre-K funds w/ @NY4ChildCare:
"Here in New York City our Mayor cut $400 million from early childhood education programs and is proposing more cuts"
tiktok.com/@msrachelforlittl…
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Zohran Mamdani, asked on The View if he’s a communist, says no, he’s a democratic socialist who believes in “dignity for all people.” He says he agrees with MLK Jr. about the need to redistribute wealth.
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Mayor Eric Adams is speaking at two churches today. Zohran Mamdani is at First Baptist Church of Crown Heights: “What good is the right to live in NYC if you cannot afford to pay your rent? Your groceries? Your childcare? Your MetroCard?”
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A city council woman calls for Zohran Mamdani to be deported.
Let’s just talk about how insane it is to elect someone to any major office who hasn’t even been a US citizen for ten years—much less a radical leftist who actually hates everything about the country and is here specifically to undermine everything we’ve ever been about.
Deport.
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In Zohran Mamdani's first interview on Good Morning America, he says he has a mandate to enact his affordability agenda. On President Trump, he says: "His threats are inevitable" and they're about intimidation.
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*New* The Campaign Finance Board just found that Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign coordinated with a super PAC and withheld $622,000 of the public funds he just qualified for.
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*New* Rep. Jim Clyburn, who was once the highest ranking Black member of Congress, will endorse Cuomo today and make robocalls urging New Yorkers to vote this weekend before it gets hotter: nytimes.com/2025/06/20/nyreg…
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John Liu, a state senator from Queens who was a leading mayoral candidate in 2013 and endorsed Andrew Yang in 2021, says he’s excited to elect the first Asian mayor.
He says Mamdani’s ideas aren’t “pie in the sky” - they’re what “we need for this time.”
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Mayor Eric Adams: "Countries are calling me and asking me to do what I did in New York City. There's an amazing opportunity that's waiting for me. And then I don't have to deal with you guys, man. I can fly private now, I can go on a cruise, I can hang out in St. Barts."
@NYCMayor addresses the media after casting his vote for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo at PS 81 in Brooklyn.
“The only message I can give to New Yorkers as I go to the next leg of my journey, I’m leaving you a good city, don’t f—k it up”
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Mayor Eric Adams's office is defending his slow and muted response to the storm. His office sent a "travel advisory" about heavy rainfall via email at 11pm on Thursday.
Adams has not hold a news conference or appeared on TV or radio, like Hochul and MTA officials, until 11am.
Remarkable that you are ignoring that @NYCMayor and @nycemergencymgt actually sent out releases on the storm yesterday.
He's also holding a briefing on this shortly.
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TFW you’re at the Western Wall in Jerusalem as a female journalist and you have to climb a bench and look over a fence to see the mayor.
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The leaders of the Working Families Party are here at Zohran Mamdani’s rally. They ask his supporters to put him first, rank the rest of their slate and to DREAM (Don’t Rank Evil Andrew Cuomo).
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New York lawmakers will unveil legislation on Tuesday that would eliminate enormous property tax breaks for Columbia University and New York University: rb.gy/k88eg1
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*NEW* The New York Times was just informed in a letter from the Eric Adams administration that each news outlet will have only one seat in Room 9 starting at the end of June. We have three reporters covering City Hall and we’ve had three desks for years.
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Mayor Eric Adams, asked if his message isn't reaching New Yorkers because of his communication strategy, says: "I'm not a traditional mayor."
No mayor has had a bald head or wore an earring, he says, and his staff: "All of them are going to go to therapy from working with me."
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Jessica Ramos makes clear to reporters that she doesn’t think Zohran Mamdani has the experience to be mayor: “That’s why I’m here.”
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Zohran Mamdani, asked about Trump’s statement warning of federal cuts if he’s elected, says: “I think that Donald Trump is going through the stages of grief.”
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Mayor Eric Adams says on WABC radio that Columbia University doesn’t want the NYPD to return to clear encampments and that you can’t negotiate with protesters because they’re “unrealistic and antisemitic.”
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Here’s the statement from New York City’s three library systems about Mayor Eric Adams’s proposed budget cuts: “We would need to suspend Saturday service at a number of locations… and completely eliminate Sunday service.”
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384,338 New Yorkers voted early in the mayoral primary this year, compared to 191,197 in the 2021 primary.
🚨2025 Primary Election- Early Voting Day Complete!
Manhattan: 122,642
Bronx: 30,816
Brooklyn: 142,735
Queens: 75,778
Staten Island: 12,367
Total # of Early Voting Check-Ins: 384,338*
*Unofficial & cumulative as of close of polls
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Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program: nytimes.com/2025/10/02/nyreg…
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Tish James, in her first public appearance since her indictment, holds her fist in the air as the crowd chants “We love Tish.” She calls Mamdani “one of the boldest voices in the history of New York City politics.”
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Mayor Eric Adams is increasingly critical of President Biden on the migrant crisis.
“It’s a real embarrassment on a national level,” he says on WABC. “The president has an obligation to deal with the immediate concerns… We’ve done our job. There’s no more room in the inn.”
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In response to Mayor Eric Adams’s budget cuts, libraries are cutting Sunday service 📚
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Jessica Ramos responds to @LindseyBoylan and others who say she is betraying them by endorsing Cuomo:
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Mayor Eric Adams visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem. I asked him what the moment means to him, and he said he was thinking of his mother Dorothy who never got to visit.
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Mamdani responds to Trump’s support for Cuomo on 60 Minutes: “The answer to a Donald Trump presidency is not to create its mirror image here in City Hall. It is to create an alternative that can speak to what New Yorkers are so desperate to see in their own city.”
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Bernie Sanders Stumps for Mamdani as Part of Fighting Oligarchy Tour with @boreskes: nytimes.com/2025/09/06/nyreg…
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How Zohran Mamdani Stunned New York and Won the Primary for Mayor: A behind-the-scenes look at a historic campaign with @npfandos @boreskes @JeffCMays: nytimes.com/2025/07/01/nyreg…
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Raising kids in New York City has so many moments of random beauty. My 4-year-old likes to stop and admire the stained glass windows on the subway.
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Zellnor Myrie on congestion pricing via @clairemfahy: "If you want to be popular, you do what is easy. But if you want to lead, you do what is best... To tell New Yorkers that you care about the cost of living & then to propose a raise on their taxes, to me is incomprehensible."
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Eric Adams drops to a 28 percent approval rating, lowest for a New York City mayor since 1996.
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COVID cases are rising again in New York City. I had it last week and it still very much sucks. City resources here: shorturl.at/9Pvyh
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