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2 days ago | hellgatenyc.com | Christopher Robbins

A little after 9 p.m. on Tuesday night, just before the returns revealed Zohran Mamdani's shocking and convincing victory over Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, many of the people milling around Mamdani's victory party were what you could call VIPs.Local and national media outlets were overrepresented at this early hour (ahem, including Hell Gate), but there were also tons of bold-faced names who'd backed Mamdani's insurgent run for City Hall and who were there to toast their candidate.

4 days ago | hellgatenyc.com | Christopher Robbins

Did you get this email forwarded to you? Subscribe to Mayoral Spew here and get these stories delivered straight to your inbox. We'll be sending these out until Election Day in November. More than 384,000 New Yorkers cast their ballots during the early voting period that ended on Sunday afternoon, and roughly a quarter of them are aged 25 to 34, which is music to the ears of Zohran Mamdani, who must turn out young, previously disengaged voters to defeat Andrew Cuomo's older, more conservative base.

4 days ago | hellgatenyc.com | Olivia Bensimon

Primary Day is tomorrow, and Hell Gate is still hitting the streets to hear from New Yorkers about the issues that are most important to them, and who they like (and don't like) in the Democratic mayoral primary race. Read our other installments in this series here.

4 days ago | hellgatenyc.com | Adlan Jackson

On Monday morning, First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro made good on one of his priorities: reneging on the Adams administration's controversial pledge to evict Elizabeth Street Garden and build affordable housing for seniors in the SoHo lot.

5 days ago | hellgatenyc.com | Christopher Robbins

With just a few hours of early voting to go, and two days before Primary Day, Andrew Cuomo's Democratic opponents are still trying to remind voters why he ultimately resigned from the governor's office. "I did not rank the former governor on purpose and there's good reason," City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Adrienne Adams said on Saturday afternoon, when asked whether Cuomo was on her ballot.