Zohran Mamdani enters mayoral race; most NYers want Adams to resign
No. 398 | Monday, October 28, 2024
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Local News
A new poll from The New York Times found a majority of New Yorkers want Eric Adams to resign.
The much-publicized pilot program for gun scanners in the subway found 0 guns and had 118 false positives in a month.
After an investigation revealed that the Bronx Democratic Party had failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, the Party updated their disclosures going back several years, revealing that the Bronx Democratic Party paid over $300,000 to a consulting firm run by Party Chair Jamaal Bailey for unclear purposes.
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli claimed that the Metropolitan Transit Authority is in worse financial shape than previously reported.
City Council held a hearing to discuss Mayor Adams’s so-called “City of Yes” plan with the City Planning Director Dan Garodnick. Left-leaning council members question whether the plan goes far enough to mandate affordable housing development.
Members of the New York Professional Nurses Union, which includes nurses at Lenox Hill Hospital, may strike if Northwell Health doesn’t agree to improve working conditions.
Newly proposed state legislation would give local referenda and ballot proposals put forth by the Charter Revision Commission equal footing, after Mayor Adams’s suite of ballot proposals in this year’s election prevented a City Council proposal from making the ballot.
Election News
State Assembly Member Zohran Mandani (District 36, Astoria) officially entered the City’s mayoral race, raising over $139,000 in his first 24 hours after filing -- more than any other mayoral challenger has raised in their first week in the race so far this year. Details of NYC-DSA's internal deliberations over the endorsement of Mamdani were leaked to Politico.
Richard Uihlein, a conservative billionaire, is spending millions of dollars in the final weeks before the election to defeat New York State’s proposed Equal Rights Amendment, which is on the ballot this year as Proposal 1.
The first mayoral forum for the 2025 mayoral election was held in the Bronx by the Arc of Justice, a civil rights organization.
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