Who are you voting for in the Dem primary for mayor?

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Anonymous wrote:Banks are getting out of NYC as quickly as possible. They have all realized that a lot of the top talent has to be here, but most other roles can be filled elsewhere. So many jobs are being near-shored or off-shored. Goldman has tons of people in Salt Lake City and elsewhere. Citi just announced a big new complex in Charlotte and has huge (and growing) complexes in Dallas-area, Tampa and Buffalo. Morgan Stanley in Alpharetta. And so on.

You really have your fake talking points lined up, don’t you?

Banks and other co have been opening up satellite offices outside of NYC for years, even before COVID. Like all big co, they learned many of their back office people can be anywhere. This has nothing to do with Mamdani. Charlotte, as one example, is a tech hub where lots of co have moved their IT and tech employees. The move has accelerated because 95% of tech is now cloud based, instead of on prem.

And you’re almost making the point of working on more affordability in NYC. It would be great if tech, hr and similar back end employees could afford to live in NYC.

100% agree that this pre-dates Mamdani. But it will accelerate under him.

I am not opposed to affordability. I think it is critical and a great idea. I am opposed to how he plans to accomplish it. Rent freezes are short-sighted and a dumb idea. Again - those who support Mamdani show a complete lack of understanding of why others oppose him and just assume that we are all evil. And again, there are several of us here and we are not totally unanimous on these things.

If the move to satellite offices outside of NYC accelerates under Mamdani, it will have little to do with him and much more to do with tech/structural issues of how modern day companies are run. Have you worked at a major company in the last decade? If you had, you’d know exactly what I mean. I wouldn’t need to explain it at all.

I don’t assume anti M people are evil, but I’ll say they tend to fall into two categories. The very wealthy and/or Jewish who don’t like his stance on Israel. But what I especially don’t like is people pretending to care about NYC posting nonsense about my city and this race.

Yea there’s a huge international Zionist conspiracy against Mamdani that opposes him solely because of his Israel stance. How hitlerian of you. Next time post an anti semitic caricature cartoon for a visual

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/17/mamdani-turns-on-the-charm-meets-his-critics-head-on-00459150

Mamdani is meeting with people and building bridges. Cuomo and Adams are hanging out in the Hamptons, courting the 1%, and desperately trying to knock Mamdani.

And you do recall that Cuomo raised taxes on high earners and corps when he was governor, right? But when Mamdani talks about this, he’s going to wreck the entire country? Got it.

More moderate Dems would endorse Mamdani but they’re terrified of upsetting Zionist donors. Pathetic.

When he was governor, dealing with a state income tax. Name me the city income tax rate in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and Boston. The 1% you disparage are why the city is a good place. They fund what you hold near and dear and they are increasingly mobile. Prop 13, cleaner streets, and year round sunshine make the Bay Area pretty desirable. For recent grads, tech is now a better ticket than finance except for the very tippy top of asset managers.

As publishing houses, galleries, parks, and other institutions in the city further decay (they are shadows of themselves), more and more will look for the exit (like rent controlled landlords are now). I do not care one bit whether renters in the South Bronx or East New York fall through their floors or have exposed asbestos no one wants to remove. This is the city Mamdani wants.

Ok you are obviously clueless and/or a troll. Again, you show a remarkable ignorance of actual city life.

The decline of publishing houses (what a strange thing to reference) has zero to do with the mayor, and everything to do with business realities. It’s not 1920 anymore.

And parks are doing just fine. There is a huge park project right now on the east side along the waterway and it’s been wonderful. And of course the high line a few years back. And revitalization projects on the west side and Brooklyn. West side even has a beach now. So fun.

Galleries? No idea what you’re even talking about. They are all over the city. Flourishing.

People aspire to move to New York to be around cultured professionals, the types who work for publishing houses (many of which have left the city). New York’s share of high culture has declined tremendously since the Bloomberg years. Smart recent grads primed to make money don’t think living in Jackson Heights and eating 15 dollar takeout in a cockroach infested rent controlled apartment is the dream. That is Mamdani’s New York.

That’s the life of any recent college graduate. First we complain that Gen Z is spoiled and now we want to spoil them? I find the anti-Mamdani crowd hysterical in all their doomsday scenarios.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you stopped the “if you don’t agree with me you don’t live here” garbage you would get more mileage with your other slightly more intelligent arguments.

The beauty of NYC is its diversity. Your refusal to admit that there are plenty of people here who dislike Mamdani and it is not because we are super rich or racist or stupid shows a lack of understanding and appreciation of that diversity.

There are many of us highly educated moderate Dem UES/UWS (and elsewhere) professionals who are politically engaged and pragmatic who don’t just vote our pocket books who feel this way. But you just insult us. Unfortunately, there are not enough of us to really move the needle much. But we should not be ignored or insulted.

But you be you. I’ve wasted enough time being insulted, spoken to like a child, treated like a self-interested morally devoid Trumper, and so on.

As I said, to his credit, Mamdani is making some effort to reach out to others. But I hope he is truly listening and getting a major reality check.

That poster isn’t worth your time. And people in your cohort can move the needle and have, to some extent. What is going on in Florida is incredible in terms of developing arts and private educational institutions. Mamdani and COVID have accelerated the region’s sophistication, the city’s incoming administration will silently beg for them to return even if they refuse to say it publicly. Let them bleed

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/17/mamdani-turns-on-the-charm-meets-his-critics-head-on-00459150

Mamdani is meeting with people and building bridges. Cuomo and Adams are hanging out in the Hamptons, courting the 1%, and desperately trying to knock Mamdani.

And you do recall that Cuomo raised taxes on high earners and corps when he was governor, right? But when Mamdani talks about this, he’s going to wreck the entire country? Got it.

More moderate Dems would endorse Mamdani but they’re terrified of upsetting Zionist donors. Pathetic.

When he was governor, dealing with a state income tax. Name me the city income tax rate in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and Boston. The 1% you disparage are why the city is a good place. They fund what you hold near and dear and they are increasingly mobile. Prop 13, cleaner streets, and year round sunshine make the Bay Area pretty desirable. For recent grads, tech is now a better ticket than finance except for the very tippy top of asset managers.

As publishing houses, galleries, parks, and other institutions in the city further decay (they are shadows of themselves), more and more will look for the exit (like rent controlled landlords are now). I do not care one bit whether renters in the South Bronx or East New York fall through their floors or have exposed asbestos no one wants to remove. This is the city Mamdani wants.

Ok you are obviously clueless and/or a troll. Again, you show a remarkable ignorance of actual city life.

The decline of publishing houses (what a strange thing to reference) has zero to do with the mayor, and everything to do with business realities. It’s not 1920 anymore.

And parks are doing just fine. There is a huge park project right now on the east side along the waterway and it’s been wonderful. And of course the high line a few years back. And revitalization projects on the west side and Brooklyn. West side even has a beach now. So fun.

Galleries? No idea what you’re even talking about. They are all over the city. Flourishing.

People aspire to move to New York to be around cultured professionals, the types who work for publishing houses (many of which have left the city). New York’s share of high culture has declined tremendously since the Bloomberg years. Smart recent grads primed to make money don’t think living in Jackson Heights and eating 15 dollar takeout in a cockroach infested rent controlled apartment is the dream. That is Mamdani’s New York.

That’s the life of any recent college graduate. First we complain that Gen Z is spoiled and now we want to spoil them? I find the anti-Mamdani crowd hysterical in all their doomsday scenarios.

No it’s not. An analyst at a bulge bracket bank, MBB, and in tech is making more than enough to live in the West Village and enjoy fine dining. They would never live in some dump like the middle of Queens or deep Brooklyn.

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Anonymous wrote:There are multiple pro-Mamdani posters here too, I’m making the experience argument because your point is ahistorical and stupid but I’m not responsible for the other recent posts.

The NY Assembly has much more influence over NYC than the US House does. You can argue it’s different experience, but that doesn’t mean it’s less valuable as preparation for running NYC. Certainly there’s little in recent history to suggest that House members have particularly demanding jobs.

(Also I suppose you’re acting like “borough president” is serious executive experience - because the list would get awfully short otherwise - but it isn’t exactly like running a big organization; really your criteria seem to be chosen to favor a) a sitting mayor or b) a former governor, which are rather convenient for your anti-Mamdani purposes but not exactly qualifications many mayors have had)

Keep rambling. The syntax and diction in pro Mamdani posts are all the same, I wonder why….. Go hang out with your imaginary friends or buck up and respond to the anti Mamdani posters who bring up substantive points about affordable housing and federal legislative experience.

DP. I guess you’re not as smart as you think you are - even though you have a place ‘out east’ and another in ‘Palm beach’ and a ‘town house’ in NYC- (this is so obviously trolly and dumb, or else you’re just truly wealthy and clueless) because you failed to pick up on the syntax and diction of different posters.

There are multiple pro Mamdani posters on here. I’m sure there are anti M people too, but so far, no one of any intelligence has shown themselves. It’s all just petty attacks and misrepresentations.

Anyway, Mamdani will win. So I guess you’re going to move, right? But don’t you have kids in schools? What will they do?

Use a thesaurus next time. Every post for Mandani here has the same ad hominem stench.

There are private K-9 schools in the city. It’s not like everyone is there for K-12. Regardless, there are plenty of good boarding schools in the northeast and day schools in Florida. The academics are comparable and the athletics are light years ahead.

What does a thesaurus have to do with it? I am not the poster you were attacking above. So yea, there are multiple pro Mamdani posters.

You’re really trying to tell me about schools in NYC? lol. Yeah, I’m aware that not every school is k-12. Thanks for the brilliant info. So if you’re so wealthy and important, I’m sure you’re already on top of school transfers, since you’re already planning to be in florida starting in October, right?

So where exactly are you sending dc?

I am not telling an internet stranger where my child is going to school. Don’t be weird.

No one really cares where your ‘dc’ is going to school, but it’s just interesting that you so casually mentioned flitting from here to there (conveniently the most cliche NYC ‘moneyed’ places to hang out) and you made no mention of the fact that your dc- who you claim to have- doesn’t have any issues with being ‘out east’ in September and then apparently in ‘Palm beach’ in October.

Look, move on. He’s going to win.

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Anonymous wrote:If you stopped the “if you don’t agree with me you don’t live here” garbage you would get more mileage with your other slightly more intelligent arguments.

The beauty of NYC is its diversity. Your refusal to admit that there are plenty of people here who dislike Mamdani and it is not because we are super rich or racist or stupid shows a lack of understanding and appreciation of that diversity.

There are many of us highly educated moderate Dem UES/UWS (and elsewhere) professionals who are politically engaged and pragmatic who don’t just vote our pocket books who feel this way. But you just insult us. Unfortunately, there are not enough of us to really move the needle much. But we should not be ignored or insulted.

But you be you. I’ve wasted enough time being insulted, spoken to like a child, treated like a self-interested morally devoid Trumper, and so on.

As I said, to his credit, Mamdani is making some effort to reach out to others. But I hope he is truly listening and getting a major reality check.

Wait, I thought they were multiple posters on here? How do you know anyone is insulting you in particular?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/17/mamdani-turns-on-the-charm-meets-his-critics-head-on-00459150

Mamdani is meeting with people and building bridges. Cuomo and Adams are hanging out in the Hamptons, courting the 1%, and desperately trying to knock Mamdani.

And you do recall that Cuomo raised taxes on high earners and corps when he was governor, right? But when Mamdani talks about this, he’s going to wreck the entire country? Got it.

More moderate Dems would endorse Mamdani but they’re terrified of upsetting Zionist donors. Pathetic.

When he was governor, dealing with a state income tax. Name me the city income tax rate in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and Boston. The 1% you disparage are why the city is a good place. They fund what you hold near and dear and they are increasingly mobile. Prop 13, cleaner streets, and year round sunshine make the Bay Area pretty desirable. For recent grads, tech is now a better ticket than finance except for the very tippy top of asset managers.

As publishing houses, galleries, parks, and other institutions in the city further decay (they are shadows of themselves), more and more will look for the exit (like rent controlled landlords are now). I do not care one bit whether renters in the South Bronx or East New York fall through their floors or have exposed asbestos no one wants to remove. This is the city Mamdani wants.

Ok you are obviously clueless and/or a troll. Again, you show a remarkable ignorance of actual city life.

The decline of publishing houses (what a strange thing to reference) has zero to do with the mayor, and everything to do with business realities. It’s not 1920 anymore.

And parks are doing just fine. There is a huge park project right now on the east side along the waterway and it’s been wonderful. And of course the high line a few years back. And revitalization projects on the west side and Brooklyn. West side even has a beach now. So fun.

Galleries? No idea what you’re even talking about. They are all over the city. Flourishing.

People aspire to move to New York to be around cultured professionals, the types who work for publishing houses (many of which have left the city). New York’s share of high culture has declined tremendously since the Bloomberg years. Smart recent grads primed to make money don’t think living in Jackson Heights and eating 15 dollar takeout in a cockroach infested rent controlled apartment is the dream. That is Mamdani’s New York.

I’m really laughing at this publishing house argument you’re trying to make. As if it’s somehow tied to Mamdani. Curious which ones you think have left the city, and how that has to do with Mamdani. Can you elaborate?

Not even sure what you’re saying about JH and roaches, but again, you show an interesting dearth of knowledge about city life for someone so invested in this race. NYC will always attract smart talented and ambitious people. Will some of those people go other places? Yes of course. But that has a lot less to do with any mayor and policy, and much more to do with the way work has changed.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/17/mamdani-turns-on-the-charm-meets-his-critics-head-on-00459150

Mamdani is meeting with people and building bridges. Cuomo and Adams are hanging out in the Hamptons, courting the 1%, and desperately trying to knock Mamdani.

And you do recall that Cuomo raised taxes on high earners and corps when he was governor, right? But when Mamdani talks about this, he’s going to wreck the entire country? Got it.

More moderate Dems would endorse Mamdani but they’re terrified of upsetting Zionist donors. Pathetic.

When he was governor, dealing with a state income tax. Name me the city income tax rate in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and Boston. The 1% you disparage are why the city is a good place. They fund what you hold near and dear and they are increasingly mobile. Prop 13, cleaner streets, and year round sunshine make the Bay Area pretty desirable. For recent grads, tech is now a better ticket than finance except for the very tippy top of asset managers.

As publishing houses, galleries, parks, and other institutions in the city further decay (they are shadows of themselves), more and more will look for the exit (like rent controlled landlords are now). I do not care one bit whether renters in the South Bronx or East New York fall through their floors or have exposed asbestos no one wants to remove. This is the city Mamdani wants.

Ok you are obviously clueless and/or a troll. Again, you show a remarkable ignorance of actual city life.

The decline of publishing houses (what a strange thing to reference) has zero to do with the mayor, and everything to do with business realities. It’s not 1920 anymore.

And parks are doing just fine. There is a huge park project right now on the east side along the waterway and it’s been wonderful. And of course the high line a few years back. And revitalization projects on the west side and Brooklyn. West side even has a beach now. So fun.

Galleries? No idea what you’re even talking about. They are all over the city. Flourishing.

People aspire to move to New York to be around cultured professionals, the types who work for publishing houses (many of which have left the city). New York’s share of high culture has declined tremendously since the Bloomberg years. Smart recent grads primed to make money don’t think living in Jackson Heights and eating 15 dollar takeout in a cockroach infested rent controlled apartment is the dream. That is Mamdani’s New York.

That’s the life of any recent college graduate. First we complain that Gen Z is spoiled and now we want to spoil them? I find the anti-Mamdani crowd hysterical in all their doomsday scenarios.

No it’s not. An analyst at a bulge bracket bank, MBB, and in tech is making more than enough to live in the West Village and enjoy fine dining. They would never live in some dump like the middle of Queens or deep Brooklyn.

DP. First, an analyst is not making enough to live in the WV unless it’s a space with a bunch of roommates. And second, you are so hopelessly clueless about city life that you don’t even realize that they don’t care much about living in the WV anyway. West village is for older rich people. No recent grad cares to live there. You apparently haven’t been to queens in a long time either, or Brooklyn for that matter.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/17/mamdani-turns-on-the-charm-meets-his-critics-head-on-00459150

Mamdani is meeting with people and building bridges. Cuomo and Adams are hanging out in the Hamptons, courting the 1%, and desperately trying to knock Mamdani.

And you do recall that Cuomo raised taxes on high earners and corps when he was governor, right? But when Mamdani talks about this, he’s going to wreck the entire country? Got it.

More moderate Dems would endorse Mamdani but they’re terrified of upsetting Zionist donors. Pathetic.

When he was governor, dealing with a state income tax. Name me the city income tax rate in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and Boston. The 1% you disparage are why the city is a good place. They fund what you hold near and dear and they are increasingly mobile. Prop 13, cleaner streets, and year round sunshine make the Bay Area pretty desirable. For recent grads, tech is now a better ticket than finance except for the very tippy top of asset managers.

As publishing houses, galleries, parks, and other institutions in the city further decay (they are shadows of themselves), more and more will look for the exit (like rent controlled landlords are now). I do not care one bit whether renters in the South Bronx or East New York fall through their floors or have exposed asbestos no one wants to remove. This is the city Mamdani wants.

Ok you are obviously clueless and/or a troll. Again, you show a remarkable ignorance of actual city life.

The decline of publishing houses (what a strange thing to reference) has zero to do with the mayor, and everything to do with business realities. It’s not 1920 anymore.

And parks are doing just fine. There is a huge park project right now on the east side along the waterway and it’s been wonderful. And of course the high line a few years back. And revitalization projects on the west side and Brooklyn. West side even has a beach now. So fun.

Galleries? No idea what you’re even talking about. They are all over the city. Flourishing.

People aspire to move to New York to be around cultured professionals, the types who work for publishing houses (many of which have left the city). New York’s share of high culture has declined tremendously since the Bloomberg years. Smart recent grads primed to make money don’t think living in Jackson Heights and eating 15 dollar takeout in a cockroach infested rent controlled apartment is the dream. That is Mamdani’s New York.

That’s the life of any recent college graduate. First we complain that Gen Z is spoiled and now we want to spoil them? I find the anti-Mamdani crowd hysterical in all their doomsday scenarios.

No it’s not. An analyst at a bulge bracket bank, MBB, and in tech is making more than enough to live in the West Village and enjoy fine dining. They would never live in some dump like the middle of Queens or deep Brooklyn.

Lol, sure that’s what all recent grads want to do. ‘Enjoy fine dining’. Lolz

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For once and for all, there are multiple people on both sides of this argument. So if you are replying to a specific post, you are definitely replying directly at someone. But if you are replying to what someone wrote several pages back, you might not be replying to the same person.

All Mamdani supporters are not unanimous. And all Mamdani opponents are not unanimous. And there is a continuum - feelings are not fully binary.

It is sad that people can't figure that out. And again, I wish there was a way that the owners here required people to be identified (it can still be fully anonymous, but this way you know you are replying to person X rather than Y, and if person X consistently posts dumb things or is replying to their own posts to appear to be building consensus, it is obvious).

And the place to live right now for young professionals earning big salaries in banking, big law, etc. I believe is the East Village, not West Village. Though I'm sure there are some of them in the West Village as well. And most of them have roommates at least starting out.

And I have been following this closer than most and have no idea who the poster above was replying to about flitting between Florida, the Hamptons and Manhattan. I don't recall that one. And if it existed, it might not have been someone who was also talking about kids. But I'm not wasting my time going back to find out and even if someone did, I don't care. Again, those questioning each other's NYC street cred are obfuscating the more important issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/17/mamdani-turns-on-the-charm-meets-his-critics-head-on-00459150

Mamdani is meeting with people and building bridges. Cuomo and Adams are hanging out in the Hamptons, courting the 1%, and desperately trying to knock Mamdani.

And you do recall that Cuomo raised taxes on high earners and corps when he was governor, right? But when Mamdani talks about this, he’s going to wreck the entire country? Got it.

More moderate Dems would endorse Mamdani but they’re terrified of upsetting Zionist donors. Pathetic.

When he was governor, dealing with a state income tax. Name me the city income tax rate in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and Boston. The 1% you disparage are why the city is a good place. They fund what you hold near and dear and they are increasingly mobile. Prop 13, cleaner streets, and year round sunshine make the Bay Area pretty desirable. For recent grads, tech is now a better ticket than finance except for the very tippy top of asset managers.

As publishing houses, galleries, parks, and other institutions in the city further decay (they are shadows of themselves), more and more will look for the exit (like rent controlled landlords are now). I do not care one bit whether renters in the South Bronx or East New York fall through their floors or have exposed asbestos no one wants to remove. This is the city Mamdani wants.

Ok you are obviously clueless and/or a troll. Again, you show a remarkable ignorance of actual city life.

The decline of publishing houses (what a strange thing to reference) has zero to do with the mayor, and everything to do with business realities. It’s not 1920 anymore.

And parks are doing just fine. There is a huge park project right now on the east side along the waterway and it’s been wonderful. And of course the high line a few years back. And revitalization projects on the west side and Brooklyn. West side even has a beach now. So fun.

Galleries? No idea what you’re even talking about. They are all over the city. Flourishing.

People aspire to move to New York to be around cultured professionals, the types who work for publishing houses (many of which have left the city). New York’s share of high culture has declined tremendously since the Bloomberg years. Smart recent grads primed to make money don’t think living in Jackson Heights and eating 15 dollar takeout in a cockroach infested rent controlled apartment is the dream. That is Mamdani’s New York.

That’s the life of any recent college graduate. First we complain that Gen Z is spoiled and now we want to spoil them? I find the anti-Mamdani crowd hysterical in all their doomsday scenarios.

No it’s not. An analyst at a bulge bracket bank, MBB, and in tech is making more than enough to live in the West Village and enjoy fine dining. They would never live in some dump like the middle of Queens or deep Brooklyn.

We’re supposed to be worried that some 22 year old finance d doesn’t want to live here?

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Anonymous wrote:Banks are getting out of NYC as quickly as possible. They have all realized that a lot of the top talent has to be here, but most other roles can be filled elsewhere. So many jobs are being near-shored or off-shored. Goldman has tons of people in Salt Lake City and elsewhere. Citi just announced a big new complex in Charlotte and has huge (and growing) complexes in Dallas-area, Tampa and Buffalo. Morgan Stanley in Alpharetta. And so on.

You really have your fake talking points lined up, don’t you?

Banks and other co have been opening up satellite offices outside of NYC for years, even before COVID. Like all big co, they learned many of their back office people can be anywhere. This has nothing to do with Mamdani. Charlotte, as one example, is a tech hub where lots of co have moved their IT and tech employees. The move has accelerated because 95% of tech is now cloud based, instead of on prem.

And you’re almost making the point of working on more affordability in NYC. It would be great if tech, hr and similar back end employees could afford to live in NYC.

100% agree that this pre-dates Mamdani. But it will accelerate under him.

I am not opposed to affordability. I think it is critical and a great idea. I am opposed to how he plans to accomplish it. Rent freezes are short-sighted and a dumb idea. Again - those who support Mamdani show a complete lack of understanding of why others oppose him and just assume that we are all evil. And again, there are several of us here and we are not totally unanimous on these things.

If the move to satellite offices outside of NYC accelerates under Mamdani, it will have little to do with him and much more to do with tech/structural issues of how modern day companies are run. Have you worked at a major company in the last decade? If you had, you’d know exactly what I mean. I wouldn’t need to explain it at all.

I don’t assume anti M people are evil, but I’ll say they tend to fall into two categories. The very wealthy and/or Jewish who don’t like his stance on Israel. But what I especially don’t like is people pretending to care about NYC posting nonsense about my city and this race.

Yea there’s a huge international Zionist conspiracy against Mamdani that opposes him solely because of his Israel stance. How hitlerian of you. Next time post an anti semitic caricature cartoon for a visual

Dp. Huh? I don’t see where anyone said there was an international conspiracy. But I do know Jewish NYers who are skeptical of Mamdani because of his views. It was mentioned in a recent NYT piece, in fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For once and for all, there are multiple people on both sides of this argument. So if you are replying to a specific post, you are definitely replying directly at someone. But if you are replying to what someone wrote several pages back, you might not be replying to the same person.

All Mamdani supporters are not unanimous. And all Mamdani opponents are not unanimous. And there is a continuum - feelings are not fully binary.

It is sad that people can't figure that out. And again, I wish there was a way that the owners here required people to be identified (it can still be fully anonymous, but this way you know you are replying to person X rather than Y, and if person X consistently posts dumb things or is replying to their own posts to appear to be building consensus, it is obvious).

And the place to live right now for young professionals earning big salaries in banking, big law, etc. I believe is the East Village, not West Village. Though I'm sure there are some of them in the West Village as well. And most of them have roommates at least starting out.

And I have been following this closer than most and have no idea who the poster above was replying to about flitting between Florida, the Hamptons and Manhattan. I don't recall that one. And if it existed, it might not have been someone who was also talking about kids. But I'm not wasting my time going back to find out and even if someone did, I don't care. Again, those questioning each other's NYC street cred are obfuscating the more important issues.

There is an option to be identified here, but still anonymous. So feel free to use it.

And yes, the townhouse, palm beach and hamptons poster agreed they had a DC but they weren’t going to tell us where they go to school. Obviously that’s a reasonable stance to take, but let’s be real, they probably don’t have a dc that lives in NYC if they didn’t think about that issue when mentioning they’d merely stay put ‘east end’ for another month while their ‘townhouse’ is for sale and then head to ‘Palm beach’, all to avoid the crisis of the mayoral election. Although they then tried to cover their mistake by informing us there are non k-12 schools in NYC (wow, I didn’t know that!!) and boarding schools they could send their alleged dc too.

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Anonymous wrote:For once and for all, there are multiple people on both sides of this argument. So if you are replying to a specific post, you are definitely replying directly at someone. But if you are replying to what someone wrote several pages back, you might not be replying to the same person.

All Mamdani supporters are not unanimous. And all Mamdani opponents are not unanimous. And there is a continuum - feelings are not fully binary.

It is sad that people can't figure that out. And again, I wish there was a way that the owners here required people to be identified (it can still be fully anonymous, but this way you know you are replying to person X rather than Y, and if person X consistently posts dumb things or is replying to their own posts to appear to be building consensus, it is obvious).

And the place to live right now for young professionals earning big salaries in banking, big law, etc. I believe is the East Village, not West Village. Though I'm sure there are some of them in the West Village as well. And most of them have roommates at least starting out.

And I have been following this closer than most and have no idea who the poster above was replying to about flitting between Florida, the Hamptons and Manhattan. I don't recall that one. And if it existed, it might not have been someone who was also talking about kids. But I'm not wasting my time going back to find out and even if someone did, I don't care. Again, those questioning each other's NYC street cred are obfuscating the more important issues.

Feel free to start discussing the more important issues.

Mamdani’s college application? Or is weight lifting abilities?

What else?

And why is it you can’t say who you’re voting for? Who is it and why do you support them?

As far as focusing on nyc street cred, it’s because there are very obviously players on this thread who don’t live in NYC but who claim to. Of course there can be legit anti Mamdani people. No one said there isn’t. But there is clearly at least one or two outside posters.

You don’t find it curious that they would want to show up and post about a mayoral election in a city that shouldn’t interest them? Really? I prefer to not have outside agents trying to distort and disrupt the democratic process where I live, but hey. Maybe that’s just me.

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Mamdani is meeting with people and building bridges. Cuomo and Adams are hanging out in the Hamptons, courting the 1%, and desperately trying to knock Mamdani.

And you do recall that Cuomo raised taxes on high earners and corps when he was governor, right? But when Mamdani talks about this, he’s going to wreck the entire country? Got it.

More moderate Dems would endorse Mamdani but they’re terrified of upsetting Zionist donors. Pathetic.

When he was governor, dealing with a state income tax. Name me the city income tax rate in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and Boston. The 1% you disparage are why the city is a good place. They fund what you hold near and dear and they are increasingly mobile. Prop 13, cleaner streets, and year round sunshine make the Bay Area pretty desirable. For recent grads, tech is now a better ticket than finance except for the very tippy top of asset managers.

As publishing houses, galleries, parks, and other institutions in the city further decay (they are shadows of themselves), more and more will look for the exit (like rent controlled landlords are now). I do not care one bit whether renters in the South Bronx or East New York fall through their floors or have exposed asbestos no one wants to remove. This is the city Mamdani wants.

Ok you are obviously clueless and/or a troll. Again, you show a remarkable ignorance of actual city life.

The decline of publishing houses (what a strange thing to reference) has zero to do with the mayor, and everything to do with business realities. It’s not 1920 anymore.

And parks are doing just fine. There is a huge park project right now on the east side along the waterway and it’s been wonderful. And of course the high line a few years back. And revitalization projects on the west side and Brooklyn. West side even has a beach now. So fun.

Galleries? No idea what you’re even talking about. They are all over the city. Flourishing.

People aspire to move to New York to be around cultured professionals, the types who work for publishing houses (many of which have left the city). New York’s share of high culture has declined tremendously since the Bloomberg years. Smart recent grads primed to make money don’t think living in Jackson Heights and eating 15 dollar takeout in a cockroach infested rent controlled apartment is the dream. That is Mamdani’s New York.

That’s the life of any recent college graduate. First we complain that Gen Z is spoiled and now we want to spoil them? I find the anti-Mamdani crowd hysterical in all their doomsday scenarios.

No it’s not. An analyst at a bulge bracket bank, MBB, and in tech is making more than enough to live in the West Village and enjoy fine dining. They would never live in some dump like the middle of Queens or deep Brooklyn.

DP. First, an analyst is not making enough to live in the WV unless it’s a space with a bunch of roommates. And second, you are so hopelessly clueless about city life that you don’t even realize that they don’t care much about living in the WV anyway. West village is for older rich people. No recent grad cares to live there. You apparently haven’t been to queens in a long time either, or Brooklyn for that matter.

The WV is the most desired place for recent grads. Most recent grads have a roommate or two. Finance bros live there in hordes, annoying old people and locals to no end.

https://www.thecut.com/article/nyc-west-village-neighborhood-new-generation-women-girls.html