Harry Siegel
@harrysiegel
Senior Editor @thecityny + Moynihan Public Scholar @CityCollegeNY Podcasting @faqnyc Writing @NYDailyNews, @vitalcitynyc, @itsflaminghydra, et cetera
Spoiler alert: Telling New Yorkers to grit their teeth and think about how much worse it could be wasn’t a winning message. My last word for now on Cuomo, for @MSNBC msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…
My last word on the election before the voting is done, for @MSNBC, is about the collapse of NYC’s mainline Democrats and the different messages both Cuomo (“I alone can fix it”) and Mamdani (“How much worse could I be?) are taking from Trump’s party-smashing politics.
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🚨 “In a separate voice memo shared with THE CITY, the man described the room further, saying: ‘they haven’t given us food, they haven’t given us medicine. We’re cold. There are people who’ve been here for 10, 15 days inside. We’re just waiting.’”
Scoop: The first glimpse inside ICE's makeshift holding cells in Manhattan, where immigrants are being held for increasingly long stretches. By @GwynneFitz & @haideechu @THECITYNY thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/vid…
Scoop: The first glimpse inside ICE's makeshift holding cells in Manhattan, where immigrants are being held for increasingly long stretches. By @GwynneFitz & @haideechu @THECITYNY thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/vid…
“We will treat [Mamdani]… as someone who is part of the org," said the @nycDSA co-chair. "Therefore, disputes, problems, things like that, we make every attempt to deal with them internally before we turn to publicly tearing down one another.”
NEW: The campaigning for @ZohranKMamdani won't stop if he's elected mayor. @nycDSA and his volunteer army will continue organizing to pressure the state government to approve new taxes on the rich to fund his campaign proposals. cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/…
“The females have a response flash, so it’s this dialogue between the two,” she said. “The males are flashing they’re hopeful. If the females are interested, if they like his flash, they’ll flash back.” thecity.nyc/2025/07/08/fir…
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An incredible malapropism: “This is why it’s important to have a seat at the table, to see what’s on the menu and to be on the menu,” Daughtry said. “And that’s what the open dialogue between this administration and the federal authorities is all about.” amny.com/immigration/ad…
🤔 Police officer retirements hit all-time high under Mayor Adams, and the Post frames that as Mayor Mamdani would gut NYPD
New FAQNYC with @MichaelLangeNYC, @AsadFromNYC and @petersterne each getting on the line with @Dr_CMGreer and me to dig into Madani's win, the fall of the elites, the rise of the DSA, the endless fight over who really counts as a New Yorker and much more thecity.nyc/2025/07/05/zoh…
Me in 2019: Young Energy Beats a Tired Machine (written before the machine salvaged the Queens DA race by a 55-vote margin after a recount) nydailynews.com/2019/06/30/you… Democratic voters in 2025, after the exhausted machine spent another six years whistling past the graveyard:
Zohran completely flipped the dynamics of a Democratic primary 2025 biggest age groups 🥇18-24 🥈25-29 🥉30-34 2021 biggest age groups 🥇60-64 🥈65-69 🥉55-59
Important advice for people skeptical or worse of Mamdani but still tethered to reality or at least trying to reconnect with it after the primary—>
Bradley Tusk, whose eponymous firm was heavily involved in @andrewcuomo’s campaign, writes an op-Ed positing @ZohranKMamdani is the heavy favorite to win in November: nydailynews.com/2025/06/29/nex…
President Trump called NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani a “communist.” Mamdani may face four candidates in November’s election as many top Democrats keep their distance from him. @lpolgreen, @edels0n and @harrysiegel join @KatyTurNBC to discuss. msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch…
Musical Crumbs: Somehow every Adams scandal touches on at least two other Adams scandals
New: Before being hired to run Mayor Adams' petitioning operation, Trent Pool, a political consultant accused of strangling his girlfriend, gave the max amount to Adams as part of an apparently illicit fundraiser at Brock Pierce's Puerto Rico mansion. nydailynews.com/2025/06/27/ex-…
Ben is the best and Max Politics is essential listening podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/max…
It was great to spend another election night with the FAQ NYC crew - in conversation here with @harrysiegel & @Dr_CMGreer, & @katie_honan at the top calling in from Cuomo's election night venue: thecity.nyc/2025/06/25/lis…
NEW episode,with @katie_honan calling in live from Cuomo's election night party moments after he conceded, along with @TweetBenMax, @Dr_CMGreer and me processing what Mamdani's win means for New York City and Democratic Party. thecity.nyc/2025/06/25/lis…
"All he had was name recognition, and then Mamdani had that" —My mom on Cuomo, as I'm telling her about the election results