Mayor Zohran Mamdani all but endorsed Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate today. But the mayor's still tight-lipped on whether he's considering heading to the Great Lakes State to stump for El-Sayed, who has been dubbed the "Michigan Mamdani." www.politico.com/newsletters/...

‘Michigan Mamdani’ (almost) gets endorsed by the real deal

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces that New York City is issuing cease and desist letters to more than 40 retailers selling illegal e-bikes (generally, vehicles that can go faster than local speed limits allow). The targeted retailers include Amazon and Best Buy.

New: City Council member Jim Gennaro called Council Speaker Julie Menin a "liar" during a tense meeting Tuesday, accusing her of misleading him about horse carriage legislation. Per sources, Genarro was shouting & pointing at Menin while laying into her. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani won't say whether he will veto the City Council bill that'd give NYC paraprofessionals one-time bonus payments. But he tells @madinatoure.bsky.social the bill "is a violation of the Taylor Law, and that continues to be the assessment that I am privy to."

City Councilmembers Rita Joseph and David Carr are ramping up their 2029 campaigns for borough president of Brooklyn and Staten Island, respectively, already raising and spending thousands of dollars on their bids, filings show. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

"I don't quite know how he landed at that conclusion. It's truly a hop, skip and a jump," Zohran Mamdani says on ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid's show when asked about ex-Gov. David Paterson's claim comparing the mayor to George Wallace because of his rhetoric about Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Entities like Citibank, New York Life Insurance & some others that have been here since the early days of the colony that became New York directly made their founding profits on the financing of enslavement," Get Free's Anthony Vidal Torres said. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/n...

Mamdani Leaves Door Open to Paying Reparations to Black New Yorkers

The mayor said in recent interviews that it was important to acknowledge the city’s role in slavery but that he could not commit to payouts before his racial equity commission completes its report.

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Between pointed criticism from Donovan Richards in Queens and Vanessa Gibson and Oswald Feliz in the Bronx, Mamdani faces growing displeasure from elected Dems in the outer boroughs. And the rebukes have struck a nerve with Mamdani's team. w/ @ryrivard.bsky.social www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Democratic discontent with Mamdani mounts in the outer boroughs

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New: NYC Department of Finance officials privately urged Mamdani’s team to tone down his splashy rollout of the city's new tax on wealthy part-time residents, fearing the cheeky vibe could backfire. The advice fell on deaf ears, tho. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Mamdani’s finance agency urged him to tone down contentious tax-the-rich rollout

The advice fell on deaf ears.

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🧟🧟: Former Mayor Eric Adams’ Charter Revision Commission has officially thrown in the towel on trying to get a referendum question on November’s ballot, putting the zombie-like panel to death once and for all. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The rollout of NYC's new secondary home tax is turning into a pied-a-terrible mess for Mayor Mamdani. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Mamdani’s pied-a-terrible mess

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A Department of Finance spokesperson now says a about 17,000 NYC property owners have been hit with letters informing them they may be on the hook for the pied a terre tax. That's less than the 31,000 properties that the DOF's own data showed last week could be targeted.

Department of Finance Commissioner Richard Lee says the city is reaching out to co-op owners that have been hit with pied-a-terre tax letters since some of them may not actually be required to pay the new levies. “It’s a little bit of a new territory for us,” he admits.

Inbox: Mayor Zohran Mamdani is ordering every city agency to cut spending by 2.5% via "savings." This directive comes as the mayor's office is projecting the NYC budget deficit for the city's next fiscal year at $6.4 billion.

Alina Bonsell, the Republican running against state Sen. Liz Krueger in November, claims Bumble and Hinge unfairly booted her from their platforms last year while she was campaigning unsuccessfully for Council Speaker Julie Menin's seat. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

A new lawsuit alleges anti-Palestinian sentiment ran so deep in Eric Adams' admin that a staffer was ousted from her job for being Palestinian. "Shut up already,” ex-Adams aide Menashe Shapiro allegedly said as the staffer spoke about Gaza in a meeting. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The Israel-Palestine policy whiplash at City Hall

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New: Outside advisers to Zohran Mamdani started urging him already in 2025 to stop making public threats about arresting Benjamin Netanyahu, warning that his focus on the issue could put him in a politically precarious spot, per two sources. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Mamdani was urged during 2025 campaign to stop talking about arresting Netanyahu

The early recommendation from outside advisers calls into question why Mamdani kept threatening to make the arrest.

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Mayor Mamdani only has one entry on his public schedule tomorrow: A flood resilience event only open to "invited press."

A spokesperson for Council Speaker Julie Menin says the body is "concerned by the speed and process through which" Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Charter Revision Commission has advanced five ballot questions for November, warning of "unintended consequences."

Zohran Mamdani's Charter Revision Commission is gaveling in for its final meeting, where it's expected to vote to advance five ballot questions for November's election. A preview of the questions in today's Playbook PM: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

A Staten Island Supreme Court judge has ruled that Mayor Mamdani acted lawfully in killing Eric Adams' zombie-like Charter Revision Commission, rejecting Randy Mastro's claim that the state law enabling the disbandment was unconstitutional. Full ruling: iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani notably refuses to say when exactly he was informed by his lawyers that NYC doesn't have the authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "I have answered the question," he says (he didn't).

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is appointing Anthony Shorris, a de Blasio administration alum, as the new head of NYC's Economic Development Corporation after a lengthy search. Notably: Lina Khan, a key outside adviser to Mamdani who has no formal role in his admin, is here.

New: Ramzi Kassem, Mamdani's chief counsel and a longtime advocate for Palestinian rights, is invested in RTX, a weapons manufacturer for Israel's military — part of a sprawling stock portfolio Kassem maintains that includes other eyebrow-raising holdings. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

A look inside the stock portfolio of a top Mamdani lawyer

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New: A corporate entity co-founded by Council Speaker Julie Menin's husband owes NYC more than $246,000 in back taxes — an awkward revelation for Menin, who criticized Mamdani for how he handled the city government's cash flow problems. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Menin’s husband finds his firm in politically inconvenient tax trouble

A corporate entity co-founded by Bruce Menin, a real estate developer, owes the city more than $246,000 in back taxes.

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“There’s no way in hell the admin is arresting Netanyahu. Not sure why we keep discussing it,” a senior Mamdani admin official said today after the mayor maintained his team's still exploring whether NYC can cuff the Israeli PM. w/ @joeanuta & @leahessclark www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Is Mamdani’s Netanyahu arrest threat toothless? (Hint: probably)

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"I would consider myself the mayor of our city," Zohran Mamdani says when asked if he considers himself "working class." The issue of how Mamdani defines working class came up in his The Daily interview that ran over the weekend: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/z...

The Mamdani admin is seeking to disqualify Randy Mastro from representing Eric Adams’ Charter Revision Commission in an ongoing case over the survival of the zombie-like entity — and things have turned tense between the lawyers duking it out in court. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

In a lengthy interview with @nytimes.com's The Daily podcast, Mayor Zohran Mamdani only says he's focused on NYC elections "for now" when pressed on whether he's going to issue endorsements in races beyond New York. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Anthony Miranda, the ex-NYC sheriff and Eric Adams ally whose home was raided by federal agents yesterday, kept this signature on his official email while still in government, source shares: "Everyday We are Building Our Testimony." www.politico.com/news/2026/07...