Letters to the Editor — June 26, 2025 – Latest News
The Issue: Far-left candidate Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s Democratic mayoral main.
There is a easy method that has vaulted Zohran Mamdani and numerous different heretofore unknowns to Democratic Party prominence (“NYC SOS,” June 25).
It’s not rocket science, however it’s the key strategy for remodeling a candidate, regardless of background and expertise, to the prime of massive metropolis politics: Flood social media with guarantees of free stuff.
The Constitution was designed with guardrails to stop mob rule, however its authors didn’t foresee the overwhelming energy of the Internet.
Richard J. Carhidi
Manhattan
We had to see it coming, and now it’s arrived.
Our fears that progressive liberals have been slowly however absolutely taking on our metropolis has been in the back of minds for awhile now.
The verdict arrived with putting readability as Mamdani received the Democratic main in a runaway, regardless of even The New York Times calling him unfit for workplace.
Now we’re left (no pun meant) with the prospect of a broken Mayor Adams or a novice Curtis Sliwa to save the metropolis. I don’t like our prospects.
Robert Feuerstein
Staten Island
I’m finished feeling sorry for New York City residents. Do they need their metropolis to implode?
I used to be born and raised in The Bronx, then lived in decrease Manhattan for 15 years. What I’ve witnessed in the final decade sickens me. Does the promise of “free stuff” imply more than peace and prosperity? Law and order? Common sense?
Like the nation final November, this coming Election Day will discover New York City at a crossroads. The proper highway to select is apparent.
Unless you need to see the metropolis degenerate even additional, there appears to be just one rational alternative in the bidding for mayor. And you understand who he’s.
As for Andrew Cuomo, it seems he’s finished in politics.
Keith LePage
Huntington
It seems this socialism is the new regular for Democrats.
We cannot permit this philosophy to bleed out of New York City and harm New Yorkers who pay taxes in the relaxation of the state.
Do you assume we might construct a wall and have metropolis taxpayers pay for it?
Paul Burgdorf
Latham
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Tuesday’s Democratic main victory by Zohran Mamdani ought to set off large alarm bells.
When studying and listening to political pundits, the theme appears to be how Mayor Adams or probably Cuomo can beat Mamdani on an impartial line.
What I discover irritating is Curtis Sliwa is barely talked about. He is an afterthought and never taken severely. Why not take into account Sliwa? Wouldn’t or not it’s sensible to have somebody who is aware of each inch of the boroughs?
Isn’t it time for somebody who has fought crime and but stays compassionate for the homeless to get a likelihood to have New York return to the superb metropolis it as soon as was?
I implore New Yorkers to put Curtis Sliwa entrance and middle. It’s time to take a likelihood. I consider with Sliwa, New Yorkers have every little thing to gain and nothing to lose.
Irene Hesse
Mineola
It was so apparent for all to see that Cuomo was looking forward to New York’s Gracie Mansion solely as a springboard for a presidential run in 2028.
Why else would he, after being already a state governor and never residing in New York City for many years, need to run a wily metropolis?
Ron Wasserman
Freehold, NJ
It by no means fails: New York City’s Democratic voters cry about the crime of their neighborhoods, and when the elections come round, they vote the identical tax-the-rich-and-spend politicians and soft-on-crime people into workplace.
Do they assume that Mamdani, together with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, will make the metropolis any safer?
I stated it in the final three elections cycles: Don’t cry about the crime and chaos in your neighborhoods, as a result of that is what you requested for. You deserve what you get.
George Pfeiffer
East Haven, Conn.
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