It's Friday in New York City, where Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani could definitely lose the general election, despite the fact that registered Democratic voters outnumber Republicans by about 6 to 1.
Just look at Buffalo’s 2021 mayoral election, where democratic socialist India Walton upset the incumbent, Mayor Byron Brown, in the Democratic primary. But five months later, Brown — with the support of deep-pocketed developers and business leaders — came back to win the general election with a write-in campaign.
"I think that a part of what wound up being the ultimate demise of the campaign is that we were just woefully unprepared," Walton said. "We didn't think about what was going to happen between June and November ahead of time."
The Trump administration yesterday filed a lawsuit against Mayor Eric Adams over the city’s sanctuary policies, arguing that restricting city officials from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement is unconstitutional.
Today marks 50 years since the musical "A Chorus Line" opened at the Shubert Theatre — and changed Broadway forever.
Police said an SUV driver yesterday hit a mom and her three kids — killing her 4-year-old boy — while they were crossing the street outside their pediatrician's office in Oakland, New Jersey.
Well something went wrong that allowed scammers to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from New York City A.T.M.s using teenagers' Summer Youth Employment Program payment cards earlier this month.
"It’s reassuring isn’t it, to have lasted as long, across all the years of learning and knowing, adventures and [illegible word], and also to have your childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference and the solace of friends," wrote Bill Clinton in Jeffrey Epstein's 2003 birthday book.
Final results show that 376,418 Democratic mayoral primary voters, or more than 70% of those who filled out all five slots on their ranked-choice ballot, did not rank Andrew Cuomo at all.
New York taxpayers ponied up to keep “The Late Show” in the Empire State when Stephen Colbert took over. Now that CBS is pulling the plug on the late-night television franchise, does the state have any recourse?
Four years after it launched, the open-air festival is coming to a close, with the first of its two final installments today, July 25. The final night market will take place Aug. 15.
A legal battle over a three-block-long bike lane in a predominantly Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood has become a central issue in Mayor Adams’ re-election campaign.
