Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look back at an eventful week in New York — the one we’ve just lived through. We’ll also get details on an appellate court ruling that left open the possibility that President Trump’s hush-money conviction could be moved to federal court.
Someday, after historians do what historians do, we’ll probably read books about the significance of the mayoral election of 2024. I didn’t want to wait to plow through chapter after chapter about what we’ve just lived through, but I did want to hear from a historian, so I called one — Louise Mirrer, the president of New York Historical. My first question was whether she thought Tuesday’s election would rank as important, perhaps even pivotal, in the city’s history. “Absolutely,” she said. Then I asked about other important milestones that came to mind. She mentioned three:
Mirrer mentioned Madani’s age and his lack of experience in managing anything as large and complicated as New York City as “things historians will want to comment on.” “Four years from now, we could be looking at a record of stellar, unprecedented success in solving the ills he has promised to solve,” she said. Or not, depending on how things go. “But for sure, historians will be writing about it,” she said, “because they write about anything that’s the first, and we’ve got a whole slew of them right here.” How much do you remember about the firsts — and other moments along the way? Try this quiz. We have made the articles with the answers available even if you’re not a Times subscriber. Zohran Mamdani was the youngest person elected mayor in modern New York, by about three months. Mamdani will be New York’s first Muslim mayor, its first South Asian mayor, its first millennial mayor — and he will also be the city’s first democratic socialist mayor. More than two million people voted, and Mamdani was the first candidate to win more than one million votes since Jimmy Walker in 1925. “The poetry of campaigning may have come to a close,” Mamdani said at his first news conference as mayor-elect, “but the beautiful prose of governing has only just begun.” He was paraphrasing a famous line attributed to whom? In his victory speech, Mamdani mentioned which two of these historical figures? The final weeks of the campaign brought attacks on Mamdani’s ethnicity and his Islamic faith from rivals and their allies. After the election, another mayor who is Muslim said this: “What you’ve seen is our opponents try and use our faith against us.” Who was that mayor? President Trump endorsed Andrew Cuomo, a lifelong Democrat, calling the contest a choice “between a bad Democrat and a communist.” (Mamdani is a democratic socialist.) But in private, Trump has described Mamdani as a talented politician — as well as slick and a good talker. WEATHER Partly sunny, with a high of 59. Some wind, with gusts up to 26 miles per hour. Evening showers, with a low of 58 and gusts continuing. ALTERNATE-SIDE PARKING In effect until Tuesday (Veterans Day). The latest Metro news
We hope you’ve enjoyed this newsletter, which is made possible through subscriber support. Subscribe to The New York Times. A judge will decide whether Trump’s criminal case belongs in federal court
A federal appeals court left open the possibility that President Trump’s Manhattan criminal conviction belongs in federal court. A federal judge will now decide whether it does — but the judge, Alvin Hellerstein, has already turned down Trump’s efforts to transfer the case twice. The case involves Trump’s guilty verdict in Manhattan Criminal Court — a state court — on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a hush-money payment to the porn star Stormy Daniels. Still, my colleague Jonah E. Bromwich writes that the appellate ruling was a minor win for Trump. It grew out of a Supreme Court decision that presidents and former presidents are entitled to presumptive immunity for acts taken in their official capacities. That finding has shielded Trump from federal prosecution, and his lawyers have sought to use it to overturn the Manhattan criminal conviction. His lawyers had attempted to shift the case to federal court before the trial. Hellerstein turned them down them twice, finding that the allegations had nothing to do with the presidency. Now the appellate ruling may prompt him to take a closer look at the immunity ruling. He could also find that Trump’s lawyers took too long to ask that the case be moved from one jurisdiction to the other. METROPOLITAN DIARY Party of One
Dear Diary: I had just been laid off from my job at a venerable New York publishing company. It was my second layoff in less than two years. I decided to brush myself off and go for a long lunch at an Italian place in the West Village. It was nice out, so I asked for an outdoor table for one. The hostess walked me outside and said I would have to be seated communally at a table for four with two people who were in the middle of a meal. I refused and opted to sit inside at the bar, but I must have said loudly that I had just been laid off from my job. After settling in, I enjoyed a leisurely lunch, with an appetizer, aperitif, wine, risotto and dessert. I figured it would be my last splash for a while before I started the slog looking for a new job. When I asked for the check, the server said that “my friends from outside” had taken care of it, including the tip. I was stunned and delighted. I hope “my friends from outside” read this and know that their kindness meant so much to me on an otherwise depressing day. Thank you. — Tracy Forzaglia Illustrated by Agnes Lee. Tell us your New York story here and read more Metropolitan Diary here. Glad we could get together here. See you Monday. — J.B. P.S. Here’s today’s Mini Crossword and Spelling Bee. You can find all our puzzles here. Lauren Hard and Ed Shanahan contributed to New York Today. You can reach the team at nytoday@nytimes.com. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox.
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