In the three-way race to win Congressional District 12 which encompasses the west and east sides Rep. Jerry Nadler, Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Suraj Patel are vying to see which Democrat will represent one of the wealthiest districts in the country. To the south, in the 10th Congressional District, which covers lower Manhattan and swaths of western Brooklyn, the field’s a bit larger. There, former prosecutor Dan Goldman, Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, Rep. Mondaire Jones, former Rep. Liz Holtzman and Assembly members Yuh-Line Niou and Jo Anne Simon are all racing to see who’ll emerge victorious in what amounts to a rarity in city politics: a Congressional election that doesn’t feature an incumbent.
The borough’s political players hoped the Assemblymember would unite the party. Instead, as Democrats head into a vulnerable midterm election, New York’s biggest local political organization is in free fall.
As Kimmelman’s employer keeps reminding us with googly-eyed headlines, rent is soaring. The city’s pandemic-era eviction moratorium has been lifted. Our new mayor is a cop who seems to disdain unhoused people. And the architects of the largest residential transformation in the city today the supposedly radical campaign to close Rikers Island insist that incarcerated New Yorkers should be in a better jail, not in apartments.