Sources:
historical turnout: www.nyccfb.info/pdf/2024_Vot...
This year's primary: www.nycvotes.org/news-and-pre...

There's obviously some other variables. This election cycle saw record mobilization for new-voter signups. Plus, NYC having a locked-party system and late national primaries means voters turn out LESS for national elections than they do for local ones during primaries.

Sources: www.nyccfb.info/pdf/2024_Vot...
www.nycvotes.org/news-and-pre...

would moving election years change that? or just increase that dynamic alongside a national dem platform?

By the numbers:

NYC turnout during 2020 US primary: 25.7%
NYC turnout during 2021 city primary: 26.5%
NYC turnout during 2024 US primary: 10.1%
NYC turnout during 2025 city primary: 29.9%

Turnout doesn't necessarily go up during national election years, and a national ticket can *depress* turnout.

sources: www.nyccfb.info/pdf/2024_Vot...
www.nycvotes.org/news-and-pre...

Voter turnout is low when there's dissatisfaction with the national party ticket. Evidence in NYC that elections aligning with national party ticket depresses turnout rather than increases.

For example:
2024 primary turnout for city/state/nat'l elections: 10.1%
2025 primary turnout: 29.9%

Product lead for the company tells me there are no plans to use AOL email or instant message data to train Bending Spoons' AI models.

After it was bought by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer said it would use uploaded files to train AI models (eventually walking the policy back) earlier this year www.bbc.com/news/article...

Or at least, that's my interpretation of it. Here's a bunch of brands with significant stores of user-uploaded text, video, or image files from pre-generative eras, now owned by a company whose primary products are AI image and text generators. bendingspoons.com/technologies