While Andrew Cuomo tops the early polls, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is officially running for mayor and Mayor Eric Adams seems to be going through the motions. As New Yorkers try to make sense of the dizzying election shaping up here amid an unprecedented second Trump presidency that seems to be taking direct aim at […]
Andrew Cuomo
Posted inRanked Choices
Low Adams Approval, and How ‘Defining a Villain’ Motivates Voters
In this week’s election newsletter, we look at two major new mayoral candidates and political participation for non-citizens.
Posted inCampaign 2025
Andrew Cuomo Gets Endorsement From City Government Workers’ Union
Teamsters Local 237, whose provide school security and staff public housing, touted the former governor’s record as a builder primed to address the city’s affordability crisis.
Posted inFAQ NYC
LISTEN: Cometh the Hour, Cuomo the Man?
Sally Goldernberg, senior New York editor for Politico, talks with hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel about Andrew Cuomo (finally) entering the mayor’s race this weekend with a sometimes grim, nearly 18-minute video announcement about how only he can save a city in crisis, followed by a closed-off and carefully choreographed campaign event. They dig […]
Posted inCampaign 2025
Rivals Pile on as Cuomo Enters Mayor’s Race
“Who’s that guy?” Mayor Eric Adams said as the former governor, who starts way ahead in the polls, launched his bid for City Hall.
Posted inAndrew Cuomo
Drummed-Out Ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo Jumps into Chaotic Mayor’s Race
With a big lead in the polls and a massive funding apparatus, the former governor is poised to become the frontrunner in a crowded field.
Posted inFAQ NYC
LISTEN: The Mayor Who Cried Wolf?
When Deputy Mayor for Communications Fabien Levy put out the news Sunday night that Mayor Eric Adams wasn’t feeling well and was clearing his public schedule, it came just a week after City Hall’s late-night news that he’d cancelled his Martin Luther King Jr. Days plans and was driving to D.C. to attend Donald Trump’s […]
Posted inElections
Cuomo on the Ballot? Adams as a Republican? Candidates Have Limited Options and Little Time
Jumping into the Democratic primary, running as an independent, switching parties or going with a third party all have their own requirements.
Posted inFAQ NYC
LISTEN: Is This ‘A City in Crisis’?
Mayor Eric Adams, who won office talking about making New York feel safer, is cutting spending on core services even as his own poll numbers are plummeting and as critics are talking, however cynically, about “a city in crisis.” Co-hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss all that, the last big cases to emerge from […]
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LISTEN: Pigeon Swag, Queens Boys and Turkey Talk
that time that Andrew Cuomo tried to push aside Carl McCall? Co-host Christina Greer does. With the former governor reportedly considering a run against newly embattled Mayor Eric Adams, she and Katie Honan talk about that episode and plenty more— including how you can celebrate Thanksgiving the old-fashioned way, by checking out THE CITY’s […]