Joe Anuta
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Covering City Hall for @politicony. Send tips to [email protected]
Cuomo framed his general election bid as a campaign reset with a (much shorter than his March launch) video featuring him with actual human beings. Success, though, is going to depend on Eric Adams dropping out --- something the mayor won't do. politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
A super PAC supporting the mayor reported raising $425k, including from the crypto and blockchain world (Last week, we wrote about a leader of the PAC who attended the same Bitcoin conference as the mayor) politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
Two opposing Italian-American groups — one is anti-@ZohranKMamdani & the other is for him — are protesting in Astoria, Queens now —> The anti-group says Mamdani disrespected Italians/Christopher Columbus statue in the past & that’s why they organized the initial protest.
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
The NYPD bans facial recognition searches — so detectives just asked a buddy in the FDNY. The looming question: was this an isolated instance? thecity.nyc/2025/07/18/nyp…
.@NYCMayor gets a warm and slightly chaotic welcome at Confucius Plaza in Chinatown
🚨@NYCMayor strongly implies former Commissioner Donlon has cognitive issues "just interview him for 15 minutes" Was Cuomo behind the lawsuit? 👉I don't have hard proof of anything. I just know this whole thing is fishy, blanks and typos in the lawsuit.
Reposting with correct info: @NYCMayor’s charter revision commission will not propose OPEN PRIMARIES:
Cuomo omitted the context of this Mamdani quote he’s ominously citing here. The context is… Mamdani taking about how he made friends in high school
As Zohran Mamdani attempts to reinvent himself for the general election in an attempt to play New Yorkers for fools, remember what he himself has said in the past. He is a fraud. "I know what someone wants to hear, right? I know what someone wants to hear to laugh. I know…
.@NYCMayor has a massive fundraising haul as he becomes the favored candidate of the monied class in the general election
Adams, top aides ran ‘coordinated criminal conspiracy’ at NYPD, former interim commish alleges politi.co/3IyD8GJ via @politico
.@NYCMayor’s former interim police commissioner, Tom Donlon, has filed a lawsuit accusing Adams and his top deputies of running the NYPD as a criminal enterprise Stay tuned for details
Cuomo derides "all the geniuses" who "said I was way ahead for the entire campaign." It was polling - initially paid for and released by his allies - followed by his team who insisted he was "way ahead" and vigorously disputed any notion to the contrary. ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…
Per source who attended @Partnership4NYC mtg w/ @ZohranKMamdani today, he said he understands "globalize the intifada" is interpreted by NY Jews as a call for violence and will "discourage" its use and not use it himself. 1/3
New: @ZohranKMamdani is expected to clarify his position on the use of the phrase ‘globalize the intifada’ politi.co/4nVo6LG via @politico
New fundraising numbers from the Campaign Finance Board just dropped and the difference in fundraising hauls between @ZohranKMamdani and @andrewcuomo since June 10 is striking: Mamdani raised $850k and Cuomo raised $64k
BREAKING: President Donald Trump — who has repeatedly pushed Eric Adams to hold onto City Hall — told reporters that Andrew Cuomo should stay in the race. “I think he should stay [in the race]," when asked about Cuomo's independent bid. "I think he has a shot.”
The videos of the flooding on the subway are wild.