🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

NEW: Hotel and Gaming Trades Council and 32BJ, which backed Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary and Eric Adams in 2021, are preparing to endorse Zohran Kwame Mamdani, sources tell Nick Reisman and me. Story coming momentarily.

Zohran Mamdani is picking up institutional support from HTC and 32BJ, key unions that backed Andrew Cuomo in the primary. via myself and Sally Goldenberg politico.com/news/2025/06/2…

NYC leaders reach deal on $116 billion city budget ow.ly/RShe106e8tq

Our POLITICO interns are here, give them a follow! Pavan Acharya Nicole Markus Amira McKee Jacqueline Munis Rachel Shin Avril Silva juliann ventura Kylie Williams Jacob Wendler

Game of chicken: Eric Adams, Cuomo want each other out of NYC mayoral race ow.ly/4TAk106f22F

.Mayor Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo want each other to drop out. Read below for what is becoming a main theme of the general election: Moderates realizing they “are set to carve up the non-Mamdani vote into several inconsequential pieces.” W/ Amira McKee politi.co/401jPfm

The state’s top education officials defended new science Regents exams amid reports that this year’s tests featured questions unrelated to the curriculum. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

CBS cancels Stephen Colbert’s show days after Trump settlement criticism ow.ly/k5iw106gb3P

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…

NEW YORK — New York City’s largest private-sector union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, voted Friday to endorse Zohran Mamdani for mayor. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0… w/ Maya Kaufman via POLITICO

Special shoutout to @EmilyNgo and Nick Reisman whose own second anniversaries are coming soon (we’ll take our gifts in cotton, please) and have held it down on Playbook with Amira McKee this week while I’m on vacation.

New for New York Focus: Two companies managing NY's home health program could pocket millions 💰💰💰 meant for low-wage care aides every year. That's because they're offering "benefits" that many workers can't actually use, but are forced to pay for. nysfocus.com/2025/07/21/new…

You’ve really got to read @JoeAnuta, Amira McKee and Jason Beeferman’s take on Mamdani’s social media skills coming at the cost of a long, long record of publicly available posts: politico.com/news/2025/07/2…

NEW: Zohran Kwame Mamdani recounts his high school shenanigans. "If I hadn’t gone to Bronx Science, I would have remained within a privileged bubble for my whole time in NYC." In a resurfaced HS alumni podcast, he talks cutting class, playing soccer & cricket: politico.com/newsletters/ne…

Scoop: The first glimpse inside ICE's makeshift holding cells in Manhattan, where immigrants are being held for increasingly long stretches. By Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social & haidee.bsky.social THE CITY thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/vid…

New video via New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) shows conditions for migrants on 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, which House members including Rep. Nydia Velazquez Adriano Espaillat have not been allowed to access to inspect.

Is 26 Federal Plaza a detention facility? My look via Playbook PM —> politi.co/3UrVDPO via POLITICO

A few hours ago, Acting Columbia President Claire Shipman sat for her first interview with Spectator and spoke about Columbia’s deal with the government. The deal “is in line with our values,” Shipman said. Via Isha Banerjee and Tsehai Alfred columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/07/2…

Gov. Kathy Hochul today didn't rule out another re-drawing of New York's House lines. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' team has spoken with her office, though a key political ally of the governor's isn't on board. politico.com/news/2025/07/2…