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Jeff Coltin
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NYC political reporter with Politico, co-authoring New York Playbook.
🌵➡️🗽 Used to be at City & State NY.
"I don’t fucking care if you agree with him or not, you don’t say that shit!" he said. "Don’t use that fucking language! You don’t fucking call someone a terrorist! You don’t know what the fuck you’re saying! So grow the fuck up! ... Zohran keep doing your fucking thing, man!”
October 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Cash on hand:

Mamdani: $5,062,663
Cuomo: $1,382,505
Sliwa: $2,272,246

Next public funds payment scheduled 10/9. Another chance on 10/30.
October 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
But Mamdani isn’t the only one who’s changed. The movement has all but ended, and there’s more of a consensus, even on the council’s left flank, on building the new jails as part of closing Rikers Island.
October 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Conditions on Rikers Island are horrible for detainees and correction officers. Managing and then closing Rikers Island would be one of the thorniest issues for Mamdani to work through if elected mayor, but it’s one that hasn’t gotten much attention.
October 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Final vote was 7-1, with two of the 10 members absent.

Supporters "thwarted what was no less than a Trumpian attempt today by the Board of Elections to try and not advance these questions to the ballot," says Amit Bagga of the Yes on Affordable Housing super PAC.
September 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM