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Lander enters the race with the backing of a number of of the nation’s most distinguished progressive leaders, together with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The outgoing comptroller, who didn’t run for re-election this 12 months in lieu of a failed bid for the Democratic mayoral nomination, kicked off his bid for New York’s tenth Congressional District with a Mister Rogers–themed video launched earlier Wednesday morning. The district spans Decrease Manhattan, together with Tribeca and Chinatown, in addition to a big swath of northwest Brooklyn, encompassing Sundown Park and Park Slope.  Goldman, first…

Kathryn Garcia, the director of state operations, was tapped by Gov. Kathy Hochul to be the following government director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. (Kevin P. Coughlin / Workplace of Governor Kathy Hochul ) Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday night nominated Kathryn Garcia, her state operations head, as the following government director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Gracia has served within the Hochul administration for the previous 4 years, with the governor appointing her to the put up shortly after she got here second within the 2021 Democratic mayoral major…