The results are in, and the city has a new mayor!
Zohran Mamdani won last night with 50.4% of the current vote tallies. Andrew Cuomo earned 41.6% and Curtis Sliwa took 7.1%.
As the primary results suggested, Mamdani overwhelmingly captured the vote in the North Brooklyn area. He earned 77% of the vote in Greenpoint, 61% in Williamsburg, and 82% in both East Williamsburg and Bushwick. His focus on affordability largely resonated with voters in an area burdened by exorbitant rents and luxury buildings dominating the housing market (and whose developers worked to elect Cuomo or Eric Adams).
That support was on display this weekend, as Mamdani weaved his way through the area’s local nightlife for Halloweekend and stopped by the Greenpoint leg of the marathon on Sunday.
The now mayor-elect also visited McGuinness Boulevard in August amid the alleged Broadway Stages bribery scandal and pledged to fully implement the redesign if elected.
As for other races, City Council members Lincoln Restler and Jennifer Gutiérrez will continue to serve the area, both running unopposed.
If he is against high rents then why is he targeting rent stabilized apartments only and not free market apartments?
A shamed to have come from Greenpoint
In his victory speech Zohran said “New York will remain a city of immigrants, built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant. To get to any one of us you will have to get through all of us.” Greenpoint may no longer be the immigrant stronghold it once was, but the influx of progressive newcomers who have “immigrated” to Greenpoint in the last few decades voted overwhelmingly for Zohran’s vision of a more equitable and affordable New York City for everyone. Loud and clear, we need to tell the masked goons of ICE: “Get the hell out of our city and deport yourselves to someplace like Moscow, where you & your secret police tactics will fit right in”. The truth is that these storm troopers are the ones who are un-American/ These goons are the ones who are alien to the values & traditions of immigrant New York City, a city still watched over by our welcoming copper-clad Lady of the Harbor.
A few comments.
The major reason Mamdani won was because he was the only major candidate that did not kiss the backsides of the billionaire RE CEOs. who have helped to make NYC unaffordable.
A secondary reason was he was the only candidate who did kiss the backside of the indicted war criminal Netany.
A third reason was that he avoided identity politics for the main part ie privilege, promotion, preference for every know minority and cancellation for the majority.
Re his far left welfare views, helping the poor is one thing but turning it into the welfare state like the limo liberals did in the 1960-1970s that almost bankrupted the city is another thing.
He got off to a horrible start by making the incredible bigoted, sexist decision to make all five of his transition team, women ie identity politics which has destroyed the Democratic Party brand nationally.
The press gave him a complete pass on the bigoted, sexist decision.
Greenpointers is run by an all women team. Does that make us sexist?
Only if you discriminate. I can’t believe that with app. four million men in NYC he could not find one man to include on the team.
It is part of the reason along with neo con republicans ie never met a war or farm out job they did not like that the Frankenstein Trump was created.