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

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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?

Yes, you should. They pay tens and tens of millions, sometimes hundreds, in state and city taxes over the course of their lifetimes. They are not accountants or in HR.

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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.

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.

Most people with an UES townhouse have a winter and summer house. No one spends 6mm+ on a townhouse to only have one residence. The second a kid is at boarding school the parents are on the full time cocktail circuit and do whatever they want. This should not be that difficult for you to ascertain. And no, I do not care about the quality of FL or NYC public schools (both adequate or awful depending on where you live).

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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?

Yes, you should. They pay tens and tens of millions, sometimes hundreds, in state and city taxes over the course of their lifetimes. They are not accountants or in HR.

Dp. Way to bash accountants and HR. Talk about a douche. You are a walking stereotypical troll

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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.

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.

Most people with an UES townhouse have a winter and summer house. No one spends 6mm+ on a townhouse to only have one residence. The second a kid is at boarding school the parents are on the full time cocktail circuit and do whatever they want. This should not be that difficult for you to ascertain. And no, I do not care about the quality of FL or NYC public schools (both adequate or awful depending on where you live).

Way to twist the point that was being made in the prior post. Very trolly of you. No one thinks people don’t have second homes, but they sure as heck don’t ignore school year issues as they claim they’re going to ‘extend their time east end’ because they’re so disgusted by the mayoral race. The poster (or you) didn’t think quickly enough when they first answered, and are now trying to back track. We get it, the fake New Yorker has done some research, read town & country, watched some sex in the city episodes (bashing queens and claiming ‘publishing houses are leaving NYC’) etc but this persona of preposterous.

Of course there are real NYers who don’t like Mamdani, but that poster was a fraud. And if you’re defending them (you?), I can only assume you are as well.

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I was the primary anti-Mamdani person who you were attacking about where I lived. I am not the Miami person you are obsessed with. I went back and forth many times giving a ton of details and you just wouldn’t give up even though it was very clear I was not the Miami person. I think I even gave the name of my favorite out of the way bodega near your very expensive Tribeca loft. But you are now bringing it up again so you don’t have to defend Mamdani’s wackadoodle AOC policies.

As I have said before, it is sad that the Mamdani supporters are resorting to numerous Trump like tactics. But I guess that’s how the millionaires of Tribeca with the rich white gullt complexes roll when not sipping on overpriced cocktails at Laconda Verde (or eagerly anticipating the opening of Friedman’s across the street to take the kids to as it will replace the Sarabeth’s that closed further down Greenwich - yup, I’m not from NYC).

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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.

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.

Most people with an UES townhouse have a winter and summer house. No one spends 6mm+ on a townhouse to only have one residence. The second a kid is at boarding school the parents are on the full time cocktail circuit and do whatever they want. This should not be that difficult for you to ascertain. And no, I do not care about the quality of FL or NYC public schools (both adequate or awful depending on where you live).

Way to twist the point that was being made in the prior post. Very trolly of you. No one thinks people don’t have second homes, but they sure as heck don’t ignore school year issues as they claim they’re going to ‘extend their time east end’ because they’re so disgusted by the mayoral race. The poster (or you) didn’t think quickly enough when they first answered, and are now trying to back track. We get it, the fake New Yorker has done some research, read town & country, watched some sex in the city episodes (bashing queens and claiming ‘publishing houses are leaving NYC’) etc but this persona of preposterous.

Of course there are real NYers who don’t like Mamdani, but that poster was a fraud. And if you’re defending them (you?), I can only assume you are as well.

You do realize you can buy a spot at places like Horace Mann, Deerfield, Pinecrest, and their peers, right? People with three houses and high eight figure wealth really don’t stress the school process the way many white collar New Yorkers (in public and private) do. The HR and accountants I “bash” are the ones often paying for consultants, because they cannot write the six and (less common) seven figure checks required to guarantee the biggest idiot can go to Dalton. So yes, there is no concern of mine (and many of my friends) about staying out East while Johnny is at Choate or (heaven forbid) Millbrook.

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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?

Yes, you should. They pay tens and tens of millions, sometimes hundreds, in state and city taxes over the course of their lifetimes. They are not accountants or in HR.

Dp. Way to bash accountants and HR. Talk about a douche. You are a walking stereotypical troll

A successful accountant at Deloitte isn’t making the same as a mediocre ibanker in his 40s. Not even close. Don’t act like people in HR are clearing 20mm checks come bonus season.

[Anonymous]

OK. So we all agree we are likely stuck with Mamdani. Hopefully he won't ruin things too much then Tisch can come in in four years and clean up his mess.

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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.

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

I have no idea what this article claims, it’s behind a pay wall, but sorry, WV is not where recent grads are running to live. Would you just quit with the nonsense?

[Anonymous]

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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.

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.

Most people with an UES townhouse have a winter and summer house. No one spends 6mm+ on a townhouse to only have one residence. The second a kid is at boarding school the parents are on the full time cocktail circuit and do whatever they want. This should not be that difficult for you to ascertain. And no, I do not care about the quality of FL or NYC public schools (both adequate or awful depending on where you live).

Way to twist the point that was being made in the prior post. Very trolly of you. No one thinks people don’t have second homes, but they sure as heck don’t ignore school year issues as they claim they’re going to ‘extend their time east end’ because they’re so disgusted by the mayoral race. The poster (or you) didn’t think quickly enough when they first answered, and are now trying to back track. We get it, the fake New Yorker has done some research, read town & country, watched some sex in the city episodes (bashing queens and claiming ‘publishing houses are leaving NYC’) etc but this persona of preposterous.

Of course there are real NYers who don’t like Mamdani, but that poster was a fraud. And if you’re defending them (you?), I can only assume you are as well.

You do realize you can buy a spot at places like Horace Mann, Deerfield, Pinecrest, and their peers, right? People with three houses and high eight figure wealth really don’t stress the school process the way many white collar New Yorkers (in public and private) do. The HR and accountants I “bash” are the ones often paying for consultants, because they cannot write the six and (less common) seven figure checks required to guarantee the biggest idiot can go to Dalton. So yes, there is no concern of mine (and many of my friends) about staying out East while Johnny is at Choate or (heaven forbid) Millbrook.

Look, you’re so obviously trolly with your pseudo ‘I’m a rich NYer’ persona, and you clearly don’t actually know the school scene, so let’s just move on.

And fyi tons of people in NYC have money. And tons more have prestige and fame.

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Anonymous wrote:I was the primary anti-Mamdani person who you were attacking about where I lived. I am not the Miami person you are obsessed with. I went back and forth many times giving a ton of details and you just wouldn’t give up even though it was very clear I was not the Miami person. I think I even gave the name of my favorite out of the way bodega near your very expensive Tribeca loft. But you are now bringing it up again so you don’t have to defend Mamdani’s wackadoodle AOC policies.

As I have said before, it is sad that the Mamdani supporters are resorting to numerous Trump like tactics. But I guess that’s how the millionaires of Tribeca with the rich white gullt complexes roll when not sipping on overpriced cocktails at Laconda Verde (or eagerly anticipating the opening of Friedman’s across the street to take the kids to as it will replace the Sarabeth’s that closed further down Greenwich - yup, I’m not from NYC).

No idea what you mean, but you continue to deflect from the actual issues. There is more than one pro Mamdani person on here fwiw. And sure, you might live in NY, fine, although it’s funny you always want to mention the most obviously touristy wanna be scene places as reference, but whatever. Maybe you’re just lame.

But in any event, that’s not the point. The point is that non NYers are parroting NYC tripes to try to bash a mayoral candidate and that’s disturbing to me.

But we can move on. Feel free to discuss the candidate you plan to vote for, and why. Somehow in all these pages, you haven’t really done that.

What issues are important to you and your family and who are you voting for?

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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?

Yes, you should. They pay tens and tens of millions, sometimes hundreds, in state and city taxes over the course of their lifetimes. They are not accountants or in HR.

Dp. Way to bash accountants and HR. Talk about a douche. You are a walking stereotypical troll

A successful accountant at Deloitte isn’t making the same as a mediocre ibanker in his 40s. Not even close. Don’t act like people in HR are clearing 20mm checks come bonus season.

The reference was to analysts. Not the very top top bankers. And the point is that you’re bashing working people. It’s distasteful.

And fwiw studies have shown that tax increases for high net worth individuals don’t cause exoduses. They have far more money than they need. If COL was an issue for them, they wouldn’t live in NYC in the first place.

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Anonymous wrote:Believe me or not, I really don’t care. When one side is resorting to conspiracy theories and limp personal attacks and the other side isn’t, it’s incredibly obvious to everyone else watching which side is winning the argument.

It is the pro-Mamdani person who went on and on and on about the anti-Mamdani people not living here. Conspiracy theories? Childish?

The Israel issue has been blown out of proportion. The vast majority of people who oppose Mamdani have that pretty low on their list of concerns. Because ultimately, he is running for mayor of NY, and that job has little to do with Israel. I am a generally anti-Mamdani Jew and I will be honest and say that I am frustrated with those who oppose him and keep harping on that issue. I am more concerned with his really poor response to it (he could have easily made it go away) than the potential for him truly being anti-semitic.

I am still waiting for the pro-Mamdani person (I also think it is just one) to say one slightly negative thing about him. It really won't make you a worse person. I can say plenty of bad things about every candidate I have ever supported. As I have said before, they are being very Trumpy in their blind obedience.

And here is an earlier poster admitting that certain Jewish NYers are ‘harping’ on mamdanis position on Israel. So I guess it’s not so outlandish

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I am an anti-Mamdani person (and likely the one who has posted the most) who has repeatedly stated what my major beefs are:
Lack of experience in government and/or leading a large organization
Rent freezes are an awful idea that will lead to less affordable housing and are not fair to owners who are dealing with inflation
City run supermarkets are an awful idea - the city does not know how to run supermarkets and they are a low margin business that do best with scale.

And in our stupid argument about NYC street cred I named a low budget out of the way bodega down the street from your allegedly multi-million dollar loft so don't say I only cite tourist traps. You probably have your own table at Locanda Verde, where the obnoxious pretentious llive.

So stop with your ignorant garbage where you cherry pick posts and ignore the majority of them. And stop claiming to be a more legit New Yorker than the rest of us.

And perhaps you should leave your bubble and meet more people because there are a lot of us out there who don't like Mamdani for the reasons cited.

It is not a sign of defeat to admit the other side is making reasonable points and that your side has weakness. I have admitted that I appreciate that Mamdani is making some effort to reach out to the other side. And that he seems to want to tackle early childhood education (I think every candidate said that, but I will still give credit). Are you capable of doing the same? Or are you just going to continue to cherry pick and be rude and childish.

I don't know why I bother.

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I’m voting for Mamdani but I have been spammed with anti Mamdani texts. Anyone else?