Andrew Cuomo to Run for NYC Mayor as Independent

@#12 ... Not to worry, the Jews in NYC ...

Back a decade or three ago, I had read that Brooklyn (a borough of NYC) was the largest Jewish settlement outside of Israel.

... Ex-NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to announce he is staying in the race for NYC mayor as an independent. ...

According to the local NYC reporting I see each evening, fmr Gov Cuomo also said that he would drop out of the race in September if he were not the strongest candidate (i.e., #2 in the polls) against Rep Mamdani.

@#15 ... Back a decade or three ago, I had read that Brooklyn (a borough of NYC) was the largest Jewish settlement outside of Israel. ...

Found this ...

Brooklyn, the Most Jewish Spot on Earth (2018)
www.hadassahmagazine.org

... By any measure, Brooklyn is the most Jewish place in America. Approximately 600,000 Jews now call the borough home, down from an incredible 900,000 in the 1940s. One in four Brooklyn residents is Jewish, the largest proportion by far among New York City's five boroughs, according to the most recent survey by the UJA-Federation of New York.

"There are more Jews right now in Brooklyn than anywhere else in the world, including the city of Tel Aviv," said Ron Schweiger, the borough's official historian, whose Flatlands home is a shrine to the long-vanished Brooklyn Dodgers (the team moved to Los Angeles in 1957). ...

OK, this looks to be getting interesting ...

Zohran Mamdani scores prize endorsement in New York City mayoral race amid big business questions abc7ny.com

... Democratic candidate for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has scored a prize endorsement from the largest union for city workers.

It comes a day after Andrew Cuomo officially announced he is staying in the race as an independent.

"What use is it to go through months of contract negotiation to win those hard-earned raises only for you to go back to your rent-stabilized apartment and face an even bigger increase in your rent?" Mamdani said.

For Mamdani, there is no bigger prize than the endorsement of DC37, the city's largest municipal labor union.

"What use is it to have the greatest city in the world if New Yorkers can't afford to live here? We do not want this to become a museum where working people once lived," Mamdani said. "We want it to be a living, breathing testament of what's possible."

Affordability is the centerpiece of Mamdani's upbeat, upstart campaign. He's already endorsed by the city's teachers' union, the Hotel Trades Council, the New York State Nurses Association, SEIU 32BJ and the New York City Central Labor Council. ...