Zohran’s shocking win: Letters to the Editor — June 26, 2025

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The Challenge: Far-left candidate Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York Metropolis’s Democratic mayoral main.

There's a easy formulation that has vaulted Zohran Mamdani and numerous different heretofore unknowns to Democratic Social gathering prominence (“NYC SOS,” June 25).

It’s not rocket science, however it's the key technique for reworking a candidate, no matter background and expertise, to the highest of massive metropolis politics: Flood social media with guarantees of free stuff.

The Structure was designed with guardrails to stop mob rule, however its authors didn’t foresee the overwhelming energy of the Web.

Richard J. Carhidi

Manhattan

We needed to see it coming, and now it’s arrived.

Our fears that progressive liberals had been slowly however certainly taking on our metropolis has been behind minds for awhile now.

The decision arrived with putting readability as Mamdani gained the Democratic main in a runaway, regardless of even The New York Instances calling him unfit for workplace.

Now we're left (no pun supposed) with the prospect of a broken Mayor Adams or a novice Curtis Sliwa to avoid wasting the town. I don’t like our prospects.

Robert Feuerstein

Staten Island

I’m finished feeling sorry for New York Metropolis 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 within the final decade sickens me. Does the promise of “free stuff” imply greater than peace and prosperity? Regulation and order? Widespread sense?

Just like the nation final November, this coming Election Day will discover New York Metropolis at a crossroads. The fitting street to decide on is clear.

Except you need to see the town degenerate even additional, there appears to be just one rational selection within 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 brand new regular for Democrats.

We can't permit this philosophy to bleed out of New York Metropolis and harm New Yorkers who pay taxes in the remainder of the state.

Do you assume we may 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 huge 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's an afterthought and never taken critically. Why not contemplate Sliwa? Wouldn’t or not it's clever 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 an opportunity to have New York return to the wonderful metropolis it as soon as was?

I implore New Yorkers to place Curtis Sliwa entrance and heart. It’s time to take an opportunity. I imagine with Sliwa, New Yorkers have every part to achieve 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 Metropolis for many years, need to run a wily metropolis?

Ron Wasserman

Freehold, NJ

It by no means fails: New York Metropolis’s Democratic voters cry in regards to 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 folks into workplace.

Do they assume that Mamdani, together with Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg, will make the town any safer?

I mentioned it within the final three elections cycles: Don’t cry in regards to 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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