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Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa (left), Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, and former Gov. and impartial candidate Andrew Cuomo. Picture by Lloyd Mitchell All three NYC mayoral candidates nonetheless standing are flush with money heading into the ultimate weeks of the marketing campaign, as evidenced by each their large spending on TV promoting and the most recent fundraising knowledge from town Marketing campaign Finance Board. Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner within the three-way contest, turned the primary candidate to achieve the CFB’s $8 million fundraising restrict on Sept. 5. But the democratic socialist Meeting member nonetheless raised a powerful $410,800…
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Picture by Lloyd Mitchell Mayoral hopeful and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced on Wednesday that he would search to maintain Rikers Island open as mayor, bucking a 2019 regulation requiring the jail complicated to shut and get replaced with 4 borough-based jails by 2027. Cuomo, operating for mayor as an impartial after dropping the Democratic main in June, revealed throughout a Crain’s New York Enterprise mayoral discussion board on Wednesday that he needs to interchange the crumbling amenities on Rikers with new “state-of-the-art jails.” The plan to shut Rikers was handed by the Metropolis Council and enacted…