Jeff Coltin
@jccoltin.bsky.social
Editor-in-chief of City & State NY. 🌵➡️🗽 Used to be at Politico.
Thanks to candidates @stephanieruskay.bsky.social and @elinorthrup.bsky.social, as well as moderator @jccoltin.bsky.social of @cityandstateny.bsky.social for joining us for a State Assembly candidate forum earlier this week! Watch it here: vimeo.com/1190165887?f...
Assembly 69 Forum 2026
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Fantastic #CongressionalDistrict7 Environmental Candidate Forum last night! Thank you to candidates @claireforny.bsky.social @juliejwon.bsky.social & @bkbpreynoso.bsky.social and moderator @jccoltin.bsky.social of @cityandstateny.bsky.social Watch the recording: buff.ly/D5jS4K9
Join us Tue 3/10 @6pm for an Env.Candidate Forum for Congressional District 7 at Pratt Inst (Brooklyn Campus Library). Moderated by @jccoltin.bsky.social of @cityandstateny.bsky.social w/candidates @claireforny.bsky.social, @juliejwon.bsky.social, & @bkbpreynoso.bsky.social. RSVP buff.ly/bJxypMs
Gov. Hochul is giving her 2026 State of the State address. Here's some of the biggest issues included in the agenda she's laying out. With @jccoltin.bsky.social www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2026/...
What’s in the 2026 State of the State?
The biggest policy proposals from Gov. Kathy Hochul’s fifth address
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NEW: Socialist tenant organizer Samantha Kattan hopes to succeed DSA-backed Assembly Member Claire Valdez, who's expected to run for Congress: www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
DSA member Samantha Kattan hopes to succeed Claire Valdez in the Assembly
Valdez is expected to run for Congress, which would open up her western Queens Assembly seat for another socialist.
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Guy getting on the M104, to the bus driver: “Sir, is it not free? Because the mayor said…” His friend: “fucking God, just GO.”
Just before midnight, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani rode into City Hall and was officially sworn in as NYC’s 112th mayor. City & State’s @jccoltin.bsky.social was there: www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani rides into City Hall
After being formally sworn in as mayor in the old City Hall subway station, Mamdani promptly announced his pick for DOT commissioner.
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"Eric Adams goes out fighting the City Council: Vetoes and a brand new charter revision commission marked the New York City mayor’s last day" from @jccoltin.bsky.social and Co. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
Eric Adams goes out fighting the City Council
Vetoes and a brand new charter revision commission marked the New York City mayor’s last day
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Kamar Samuels is Mamdani's pick to lead the DOE, three sources with knowledge of the plan tell City & State. Big city team scoop by @hollypret.bsky.social, @anniemcdonough.bsky.social and @sahalied.bsky.social www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...
Mamdani to name Kamar Samuels as schools chancellor
The Manhattan superintendent will lead the nation’s largest public school system.
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Brad Lander approached Nancy Pelosi at a gala and told her he was running for Congress. “I am a Dan Goldman Democrat,” she responded. “Democrats don’t run against Democrats.” “Was I too much of a b—?” she asked after. @donlemonofficial.bsky.social tells the story:
New York City is seeking to tighten control over who can get press credentials, extend its ability to revoke existing press cards, and create a new "premier" card for journalists with 20+ years of experience rules.cityofnewyork.us/rule/mome-pr...
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Every year, City agencies make over 100 changes or additions to the City rules that are an important part of how government interacts with the public. New Yorkers can review proposed rules and voice t...
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Some professional news: I’m coming back to @cityandstateny.bsky.social as editor-in-chief. I was a fan of C&S when I was a college student emailing to ask for an internship, and I’m still a fan today. Excited to take the helm heading into such a crucial and interesting time in NY politics.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani hasn’t endorsed fellow democratic socialist and NYC Council Member Chi Ossé in his bid to unseat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Our @jccoltin.bsky.social breaks down why Mamdani is in a tough spot. Read more: politi.co/4o6S6mx
Per @jccoltin.bsky.social, Mamdani on discouraging Chi Ossé from primarying Jeffries: Appreciates his work for tenants, but “I believe that there are many ways right here in New York City to both deliver on an affordability agenda and take on the authoritarian administration in the White House.”
Virulent anti-Mamdani push poll combines questions about his actual positions (housing affordability, millionaire tax) with Islamophobic questions implying that he supports "making halal mandatory in all city restaurants" and investigating "Israel's role in 9/11" (via @jccoltin.bsky.social)
After the City Council won the lawsuit blocking Mayor Eric Adams' efforts to let ICE on Rikers, Cabán and the council are hoping to add to sanctuary city laws and speficially block ICE from all DOC facilities.
Tiffany Cabán@tiffanycaban.bsky.social · 10mo agoI’m introducing a law today to keep ICE off Rikers. We must protect New Yorkers from modern-day storm troopers.
NEW: Brian Romero, a DSA member who worked as chief of staff to Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas, is running for González-Rojas' Assembly seat, which she'll be vacating to run for state Senate. Romero is applying for DSA's endorsement in the race, though he might not get it.
Brian Romero hopes to succeed his former boss in the Assembly
He is running for Jessica González-Rojas’ seat, after serving as her chief of staff for more than four years.
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Man in the black and white flag mask biked in circles around the Zohran Mamdani presser in Jackson Heights this morning calling the mayoral candidate “a terrorist.” After a minute or two of that, the muscular man screamed at him to get out of here with his bigoted shit.
Filings 8/19-9/29: Mamdani: Raised $431,567 (stopped 9/5); Spent $1,347,344; 6,543 contributors; $63 avg.; 51% NYC Cuomo: Raised $939,857; Spent $1,513,042; 2,754 contributors, $325 avg.; 75% NYC Sliwa: Raised $429,472; Spent $1,542,993; 4,240 contributors, $100 avg.; 60% NYC
As an activist in 2019, Mamdani shamed the pols who voted to build the borough-based jails. Now on the cusp of being mayor, he’s shed his revolutionary No New Jails pose for a stance more akin to a traditional liberal reformer. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Mamdani protested new jails. Now he’s committing to building them.
Managing Rikers Island — and moving to close it once and for all — will be one of the thorniest issues for New York City’s next mayor.
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"The major players behind an ill-fated deal to make Mayor Eric Adams the Trump administration’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia have financial ties to a developer trying to win approval for a New York City casino." What a lede.
Jeff Coltin@jccoltin.bsky.social · 10mo agoSteve Witkoff, Frank Carone, Vito Pitta... a look at all the threads connecting Adams, Trump, and a casino bid in the Bronx: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Steve Witkoff, Frank Carone, Vito Pitta... a look at all the threads connecting Adams, Trump, and a casino bid in the Bronx: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Adams’ allies push Trump ambassadorship — and a New York City casino bid tied to his veto
Middlemen orchestrating a deal for Adams to join the Trump administration have ties to a Bronx casino project the mayor recently rescued.
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It's interesting that both Mamdani's supporters (www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...) and his opponents (nypost.com/2025/09/26/u...) are trying to persuade homeowners by highlighting his support for Local Law 97, which requires larger buildings to reduce their emissions.
New pro-Mamdani PAC targets Black homeowners
Can messaging around reducing energy bills and pollution win over Cuomo voters in East Flatbush and Wakefield?
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A NYC corrections investigator shared sensitive data with federal authorities about two migrants in custody, unwittingly violating sanctuary laws and helping ICE agents arrest one of the men.
NYC staffer violated 'sanctuary' laws by sharing migrant info with feds: report
A city probe revealed a correction department worker didn’t know he was breaking the law
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Layla Law-Gisiko filed in Tony Simone's Assembly district. It could be open, since Simone is considering the special election for Hoylman-Sigal's Senate seat, or the open primary for Nadler's House seat. Law-Gisiko finished second to Simone in the open #AD75 primary in 2022.
The City Council is expected later this week to approve the "Just Home" plan to build a housing complex in the Bronx for ex-inmates with serious health issues, bucking a last-ditch effort from Mayor Adams’ administration to block the project. www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/23/n...
NYC Council to vote on Bronx ex-inmate housing plan, bucking Adams’ opposition
The City Council is expected later this week to approve a plan to build a housing complex in the Bronx for ex-inmates with serious health issues, bucking a last-ditch effort from Mayor Adams’…
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One single write-in vote was enough to elect Yamid Jaramillo a Democratic district leader in East Harlem: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
