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It's Monday in New York City, where voters under 40 increased their turnout rate this year more than any other age group compared to four years ago.
And many of those voters did not go to the polls alone.
A Gothamist data analysis identified households with multiple registered voters, and in follow-up calls with several of those families, we found a pattern: young people who convinced their parents and neighbors to ditch Andrew Cuomo and back Zohran Mamdani.
"This is what I want," said Tribeca resident Meredith Kane, whose daughter swung her toward Mamdani. "I want young people to be involved in this way, and I was so inspired by that act that I really looked twice at him."
Mayor-elect Mamdani said in an interview yesterday that he remains confident in his plan to keep NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch — but he stopped short of making it official.
North Jersey Congressmember Mikie Sherrill said she plans to resign this week after winning the state's gubernatorial election, setting up a special election to fill her House seat.
"If I were a Jewish New Yorker, I’d be concerned about my children," Mayor Eric Adamstold an audience in Tel Aviv over the weekend when asked about the safety of Jews under incoming Mayor Mamdani.
Residential tenants who were displaced by the construction told Gothamist earlier this year about their fears of whether they'd be able to afford new apartments in the area.
The so-called “RAT” act, which the City Council passed late last week, requires all buildings with 31 or more units to use on-street bins to dispose of residential waste.
The Studio Museum, an internationally acclaimed hub for Black artists, closed its doors in 2018 for what eventually became a seven-year wait as it set out to build a new home.
Under the proposed law, the department would have to give the Civilian Complaint Review Board real-time access to the servers hosting the footage “comparable to that granted to the department’s internal affairs bureau.”
President Donald Trump’s plan to rebuild Penn Station could pave the way for a skyscraper building bonanza around the transit hub, according to documents published by Amtrak last month.
