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Prominent pols remembered Ronnie Eldridge as an icon of NY politics Wednesday. It’s possible “young people won’t know her name,” Liz Holtzman said. “But everybody who cared about politics in the 70s, the 80s and the 60s knew the name Ronnie Eldridge.” ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

Turns out Trump had a very different vision for the Sunnyside rail yard than the one Mamdani pitched him on last week. He imagined a football stadium there for his USFL team… in 1984. A look back at the history of failed ambitions at the site: ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

NEW: Queens state Senator Mike Gianaris won't seek reelection this year. Gianaris is second in rank in the state Senate and has had a long career in Albany stretching back to his election to the Assembly in 2000.

“He’s a lot of fun to hang around with.” -Mayor de Blasio Cardinal Dolan managed to charm NY’s political class while never backing down from a policy fight. ny1.com/religion/2026/…

At the White House, departing presidents leave a handwritten note for their successor to discover upon entering the Oval Office. In NYC, newly minted mayors stride into City Hall and find a thick stack of unpaid bills. My latest in @NYMag nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Remember when NYC’s First Lady held a press conference outside Gracie Mansion to announce the Mayor cheated on her? A trip down memory lane… ny1.com/politics/2026/…

Mamdani, after meeting with Mayor Adams, cites City of Yes and trash containerization as 2 initiatives “New Yorkers deserve to have be built on, as opposed to be discarded.”

Mayor Adams just said he has meeting scheduled with Mayor-elect Mamdani today at noon. (Though meeting couldn’t possibly start on time as Adams was speaking just a few minutes before noon at his announcement in Harlem)

.@NYCMayor says he will not endorse @ZohranKMamdani because of his affiliation with the DSA, but adds that he is in talks with @andrewcuomo, suggesting a nod could be on the horizon

“It’s not fake news. They’re memes.” -City Council candidate Jonathan Rinaldi acknowledged/defended posting doctored news articles making it look as though he was endorsed by Cuomo, Holden, etc. He’d previously told the Queens Daily Eagle he was hacked. ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

“Or to raise taxes on the rich…” Will that be a starting point for negotiation? Or a red line?

NYC political junkies, here’s where you can find the 1997 Al Sharpton-Ruth Messinger primary runoff debate footage you didn’t know you needed today- ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

My full story from yesterday, with extended footage of AOC and Zohran Mamdani shimmying atop a parade float: ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

First AOC-Mamdani joint appearance since her endorsement Thursday

Rep. Nydia Velazquez appearing alongside Zohran Mamdani and AOC at the Puerto Rican Day Parade today announced she’s ranking Mamdani first on her ballot

.@bobhardt never lies

“I just saw such amazing and appalling things going on, I said, ‘I’ve got to write about this somehow.’” -Tom Robbins ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

Of note: Mahmoud Khalil will appear before an immigration judge in Louisiana tomorrow, per his attorneys ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

Turns out Citibank charged the city a $15K overdraft fee after feds clawed back that $80M (Lander told me it’s since been refunded) ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

De Blasio told me "of course" Adams can still win re-election-- "You have an incumbent mayor, he's got some achievements he can talk about, he's obviously known to be a very good campaigner and now he doesn't have the distraction of this case." ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…