This isn’t an endorsement. None is necessary. Even a third grader can see what’s at stake in New York City’s mayoral election. This is now a two-candidate race between Zohran Mamdani (D) and Andrew Cuomo. The opportunity is now. The urgency is real. Curtis Sliwa (R) is probably a decent candidate anywhere else. But this is New York. He’s a Republican in a Democratic stronghold, and he doesn’t enjoy the support of President Trump — meaning his narrow pathway is closed. Sliwa means well, but he can’t win. So we are left with a stark choice, and the stakes could not be higher. New York is about to hand the keys to City Hall to a man whose greatest skill is manipulating algorithms. Mamdani has built a digital propaganda machine that would make any authoritarian proud. He runs on viral moments and manufactured outrage, not results. That might work for influencers, but it’s a recipe for disaster when you’re running a city of over 8 million people. New York is not ready for his radical experiment. He would dismantle the city’s cultural fabric that has taken 250 years to build. Worse, he doesn’t have the experience. You can’t just go from riding in a plane to flying a 787. He’s too young, too raw, and too naïve about what makes this city work. And unlike every mayor before him, he’ll never have to face real accountability — his social media army has been trained to attack critics, not question their leader. Mamdani seems like a decent guy, but his policies would raise taxes, make our streets less safe, decimate New York’s economic base and drive out businesses. He is on the record as anti-NYPD, a harsh critic of Israel, and he has floated the abolition of private property. He is far too comfortable in the company of antisemites and he won’t back away from his own calls, using the language of terrorism, to “globalize the intifada. He is bankrolled by a radical network that doesn’t believe in America or the freedoms that made this country great. That’s not just bad politics — it’s dangerous. Lock your doors, New Yorkers. His proposals — rent freezes, free buses, city-owned groceries, 200,000 new government housing units on top of the New York City Housing Authority’s more than 177,000 — would supposedly be funded by tax hikes on millionaires and corporations. But this will just drive them all to Florida, leaving the bill for the middle class. Mamdani’s followers don’t understand what the New York City Housing Authority is. They don’t understand municipal bonds. They’ll vote for revolution because it got 4 million views. Being mayor isn’t a Tik Tok video. It means solving real problems: crime, housing, homelessness, jobs. It means managing a budget bigger than that of most states. The state of New York already faces a $3 billion deficit, and our economic base is packing its bags. Viral moments won’t replace serious solutions. By the time his followers realize the rent freeze destroyed housing construction, the algorithm will have moved on. Andrew Cuomo paid his price. Nobody’s perfect. He faced the consequences. But he’s done the job. He has governed through crises, kept the economy growing and balanced budgets. On housing — the issue New Yorkers care about most — he […]  | Read More The Yeshiva World