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Perhaps more stingingly, Tascha van Auken, Mamdani's influential campaign field director, also argued against endorsing Osse at tonight's meeting by questioning whether he is loyal to the DSA's principles, per sources. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/19/m...
20.11.2025 02:42 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2
New: In an extraordinary appearance at a @socialists.nyc meet tonight, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani urged the leftist group to not endorse Chi Osse's run against Hakeem Jeffries, saying the move would make it "more difficult" to enact his agenda in NYC, per sources. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/19/m...
20.11.2025 02:31 — 👍 50 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 10
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team confirms he is expected to meet with Trump at the White House on Friday:
20.11.2025 02:24 — 👍 48 🔁 3 💬 10 📌 3Mamdani has arrived at the meeting and is in line to speak against the idea of endorsing Osse, per sources.
20.11.2025 01:03 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Sources tell me Osse also said he knows there's "skepticism" in the room (Zohran Mamdani is potentially going to appear to argue against endorsing Osse), but told DSA members he's committed to fighting for "true socialism" and take "concrete" steps to end the "genocide" in Gaza.
20.11.2025 00:48 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The closed-door NYC-DSA meeting where the group's considering endorsing Chi Osse's congressional run is underway.
Per sources, Osse said in remarks that Hakeem Jeffries "uses race as a shield, while he fails to fight fascism."
The mayor can only terminate RGB members for cause, so it's not necessarily as easy as just saying "you're fired."
19.11.2025 21:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Mamdani says he still hasn't decided whether he's moving into Gracie Mansion as mayor.
Is he going to stay in his stabilized unit in Astoria? "That's probably where I would be if I didn't go [to Gracie], but we haven't made any decisions," he says, referring to himself & his wife.
Mamdani notably says "first order of business" for him as mayor "will frankly be the Rent Guidelines Board and freezing the rent."
Mayor Adams is exploring stacking the board to try to block a freeze. "I think it's an obstacle but I think it's one we can overcome," Mamdani says.
"I don't see that happening," Mamdani says on PIX11 when asked about ex-NYPD Chief John Chell's claim that some 4,000 cops could leave the department in January.
19.11.2025 21:22 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The revelation comes at an awkward time for Osse, as he's seeking an endorsement for his congressional run from the Democratic Socialists of America, which counts Sanders as one of its most prominent champions. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/19/c...
19.11.2025 18:04 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New: Left-wing congressional hopeful Chi Osse has spoken about how voting for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary was a formative experience for him.
There's just one problem: Osse wasn't even registered to vote in that presidential primary. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/19/c...
Asked by the Daily News if he'd fire Tisch if she refuses to act on his promises, like disbanding the NYPD's controversial SRG unit, Mamdani said: "I'm not hiring or retaining individuals so I can do their jobs for them, and I will also be the mayor." www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/19/j...
19.11.2025 17:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In her statement issued by Mamdani's transition, Tisch did not touch on the differences they have.
But in her email to cops, she was more blunt: "Do the mayor-elect and I agree on everything? No, we don't."
w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social et al www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/19/j...
Signaling she doesn't agree with every aspect of Mamdani's public safety agenda, she also wrote she appreciates he "wants a team with different points of view — a team where ideas and policies are debated on their merits." www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/19/j...
19.11.2025 13:15 — 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0NEW: Jessica Tisch has accepted Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's offer to stay on as NYPD commissioner under his administration.
In an email to cops, Tisch wrote she will remain "a fierce advocate for you and for this department. You know how I operate: I don't mince words."
In sentencing ex-City Hall aide Mohamed Bahi today, Judge Dale Ho said the "elephant in the room" was the fact that Trump's admin quashed Adams' indictment on similar charges: "It is hard to escape the impression that Mr. Bahi is left here holding the bag." www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/18/e...
18.11.2025 19:15 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Inbox: Mayor Adams isn't returning to NYC tomorrow after all, as he's going to Uzbekistan from Israel (where he's been since Friday). He'll be in Uzbekistan until Sunday.
This comes as Adams has said he's exploring post-City Hall job offers involving something international.
The effort to retaliate against ex-Adams adviser Tim Pearson's harassment accuser went deeper than previously known, with both NYPD & City Hall officials getting involved.
"Tell her to keep her mouth shut,” then-NYPD Chief Jeff Maddrey said about the accuser. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/17/t...
New: Zohran Mamdani has already gotten involved in endorsement politics, backing Palestinian activist Aber Kawas for a Queens Assmebly seat, putting him on a collision course with incumbent Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, who's back her top aide for the seat. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/17/m...
17.11.2025 13:57 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2
The same gala honoring Adams is expected to draw protests from members of Betar, the far-right Zionist group. The group says Adams "failed the Jewish community" of New York, per poster also shared by source.
15.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mayor Adams is going to be honored for his "unwavering support" of Israel at a gala in Tel Aviv tomorrow hosted by the Combat Antisemitism Movement, a Kansas-based group founded by Trump-connected Republican mega donor Adam Beren, per invitation shared by source.
15.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A City Council committee voted today to kill a bill that'd ban horse carriages from operating in the Big Apple, casting doubt over the future of the push to abolish the industry.
Zohran Mamdani has said he favors a ban.
w/ @simko-bednarski.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/14/c...
New: The City Council is putting its weight behind Zohran Mamdani’s call for the state to pony up more money for childcare programs in the Big Apple — and laying out a series of suggestions for how he could make the system as a whole more effective.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/13/n...
On childcare, Mamdani and Hochul have a "shared desire to make significant additional investments that put New York on a path to universal childcare," per the readout.
Unclear what shape these investments will take, as Hochul has said she's against Mamdani's push for tax hikes.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Hochul met for about an hour this afternoon and spoke about a number of issues, including childcare and Trump, per readout from Mamdani's team.
13.11.2025 20:37 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Long live the Daily News!
13.11.2025 18:39 — 👍 69 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 1Mamdani sounds very skeptical his admin will be able to build senior housing in the Elizabeth St. Garden in light of the Adams admin's parkland designation: "The actions that the Adams administration has taken now make it nearly impossible to follow through with that."
13.11.2025 15:59 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 3Mamdani continues to decline to give an exact timeline on when he thinks he can get universal childcare enacted, but says: "I view the time that I will be the mayor as the time that we have to implement the policies that we ran on."
"Max two terms," he adds.
More reporters and photographers than children at this day care in Crown Heights where Zohran Mamdani's supposed to make an appearance this morning.
13.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
