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Queens Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani (left) and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who’re each main candidates on this 12 months’s Democratic major for mayor. File Pictures by Lloyd Mitchell Queens Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani seems to be gaining floor on former Gov. Andrew Cuomo within the crowded Democratic major to switch Mayor Eric Adams, a brand new Emerson Faculty/Pix11/The Hill ballot revealed on Wednesday. The survey of 1,000 registered doubtless Democratic metropolis voters, carried out throughout Might 23-26, has Cuomo nabbing 35% of the vote to Mamdani’s 23% within the first spherical of ranked-choice — a 12 level distinction between the…

Two hikers in New York’s Adirondack Mountains known as 911 to report a 3rd member of their occasion had died, but it surely turned out that they had taken hallucinogenic mushrooms and had been mistaken, officers mentioned Wednesday. The 2 hikers who known as 911 additionally advised a steward on the mountain’s summit that they had been misplaced. The steward “determined the hikers were in an altered mental state,” based on the company. The supposedly lifeless particular person known as and was not injured. The ranger escorted the 2 hikers all the way down to an ambulance, which took them…