New York's Mayoral Race Could Decide the City's Climate Future

2025 New York City & State Primary Preview

This week is New York City’s primary, as well as local elections for a number of other jurisdictions across New York State, with the biggest non-NYC races being for Mayors in Buffalo and Rochester. Polls close at 9p ET, and we will be liveblogging. Please note that Ranked Choice tabulations are not planning to be run until 7/1 in NYC, so unless someone unambiguously crosses 50% we will not have a winner Tuesday night. NYC-Mayor (D): The biggest …

New York's mayoral race could decide the city's climate future

Six years ago, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hosted a chaotic press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower to announce the city’s commitment to its version of the Green New Deal.  The mayor, whose term ended in 2022, planned to achieve this through the Climate Mobilization Act, which later passed the city council and aims to cut municipal emissions 85 percent by 2050. Shortly before de Blasio was scheduled to speak, however, Trump Tower emp…

New York City Is About To Decide Democrats’ Future

Early voting in New York City’s mayoral primary race is well underway, and the rest of the country is watching. That’s because this year’s publicly funded city election is a battle for the future of the Democratic party, and the two frontrunners — a disgraced, corporate-backed Democrat and an upstart, young progressive — reveal a political schism that stretches far beyond the Big Apple. Today on Lever Time, David Sirota speaks with one of the ra…

New York’s mayoral race could decide the city’s climate future

Six years ago, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hosted a chaotic press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower to announce the city's commitment to its version of the Green New Deal. The mayor, whose term ended in 2022, planned to achieve this through the Climate Mobilization Act, which later passed the city council and aims to cut municipal emissions 85 percent by 2050. Shortly before de Blasio was scheduled to speak, however, Trump Tower empl…