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Mayor Eric Adams speaks at Israel Independence Day celebration on Could 11, 2025. Benny Polatseck | Mayoral Images Workplace Lower than a month after visiting Israel, outgoing Mayor Eric Adams signed two govt orders on Wednesday in assist of the Center Japanese nation and Jewish New Yorkers. The manager orders come lower than a month earlier than Zohran Mamdani takes the mayor’s workplace on Jan. 1. Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, has been important of Israel and has, prior to now, supported the Boycott Divest and Sanction (BDS) motion towards the Jewish state. These positions and his pro-Palestinian rhetoric led to…
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso is operating for Congress. Photograph courtesy of the Workplace of the Brooklyn Borough President Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso will run for U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez’ congressional seat, he introduced Thursday. Velázquez, a progressive who has represented components of Brooklyn and Queens in New York’s seventh Congressional District for 3 a long time, introduced late final month that she will retire in 2026. In what’s shaping as much as be a heated midterm election in New York, Reynoso is the first individual to declare his candidacy for her seat — although Council Member Tiffany Cabán, state Sen. Kristen Gonzalez…