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Here’s How the Upper West Side Voted in the 2025 Mayoral Primary Race

June 25, 2025 | 12:52 PM
in NEWS, POLITICS
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Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani. Photos courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

By Gus Saltonstall

Zohran Mamdani will be the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City after Andrew Cuomo conceded Tuesday night to the current Queens assemblymember.

While the race has not officially been called, Mamdani leads Cuomo by around eight points with 93 percent of votes counted as of Wednesday morning.

Also on Wednesday morning, the New York Times came out with “The Most Detailed Map of the N.Y.C Mayoral Primary,” which breaks down voter count by election districts, which are made up of a handful of blocks in most cases.

Here’s what it tells us about how the Upper West Side voted.

To start with, Cuomo won the Upper West Side.

But not by a huge margin.

Cuomo received 34 percent of the votes on the Upper West Side, while Mamdani received 30 percent, and Brad Lander landed 25 percent of neighborhood voters, according to the New York Times. In total, the 54,820 votes cast on the Upper West Side for Tuesday’s mayoral primary were the most of any neighborhood in New York City.

Of the 15 neighborhoods in the five boroughs with the highest total number of votes on Tuesday night, Mamdani won 12 of them, according to the New York Times.

Courtesy of New York Times.

Cuomo received more votes on the Upper West Side than any neighborhood in New York City besides the Upper East Side, but Mamdani also received more total votes in our neighborhood than any outside of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, or Astoria, Queens.

Additionally, Lander received his largest vote tally of any neighborhood on the Upper West Side.

Let’s get more specific with our analysis of the Upper West Side voting breakdown.

Courtesy of New York Times

The above graphic gives a basic representation of how the votes broke down based on regions of the Upper West Side and in Morningside Heights. Blue represents election districts where Cuomo had the most votes, orange Mamdani, and purple for Lander.

The first trend to jump out is that Cuomo had his strongest showing on the Upper West Side from around West 59th to 93rd streets, but starting in the 90s, election districts began tipping toward Mamdani or Lander. Cuomo won just one election district between West 107th and 123rd streets, and Mamdani begins winning the majority of voters around 96th Street.

Cuomo did not win a single election district in Morningside Heights, which is the neighborhood where Mamdani grew up. Mamdani also won the majority of votes in Harlem, Washington Heights, and Inwood.

Within the southern half of the Upper West Side, though, Cuomo won every single election district west of Broadway from West 65th to 86th streets.

Mamdani had pockets of success within this lower portion of the neighborhood, though. He received the most votes of any candidate in the majority of voting precincts from West 68th to 76th streets, from Central Park West to Broadway.

The stretch of around West 75th to 80th streets then tips back to Cuomo election precincts, before Mamdani has another noticeably strong showing from West 81st to 86th streets.

Lander had his strongest showing in the neighborhood west of Broadway from around West 86th to 106th streets.

Cuomo secured his highest totals in the neighborhood along Central Park West from West 59th to 67th streets, where he received between 42 and 52 percent of the votes, according to the New York Times.

You can check out the interactive map for yourself and see your own block’s voter breakdown — HERE.

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Mark
Mark
16 days ago

Notice where the yuppies live

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Billy A
Billy A
15 days ago
Reply to  Mark

My data shows…..

Higher Income
Mamdani
42.5%
Cuomo
29.3%

Middle Income
Mamdani
47.0%
Cuomo
37.3%

Lower Income
Mamdani
37.3%
Cuomo
50.1%

Asian
Mamdani
51.5%
Cuomo
36.1%

Hispanic
Mamdani
47.4%
Cuomo
41.5%

White
Mamdani
39.4%
Cuomo
34.2%

Black
Mamdani
33.3%
Cuomo
51.5%

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Rear Window
Rear Window
16 days ago
Reply to  Mark

This is a wake up call!
MAMDANI is our next “Barack Obama”

Last edited 16 days ago by Rear Window
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
15 days ago
Reply to  Rear Window

Obama didn’t destroy the economy.

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Christof
Christof
15 days ago
Reply to  Adam Smith

“Adam Smith.,” this is the WEST Side Rag, Go back East, young man.

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Billy A
Billy A
15 days ago
Reply to  Christof

Christof go back to New Jersey!

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Christof
Christof
14 days ago
Reply to  Billy A

Billy, go back to Indiana. Go further west, young man,.

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Maddie
Maddie
15 days ago
Reply to  Rear Window

So sad. 😞 you really don’t get it. Obama was the one that divided our country.

NYC is finished if this guy becomes mayor. The ones that voted for this phony are people who don’t work and don’t pay taxes and want everything
free.

God help NYC

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Beth
Beth
14 days ago
Reply to  Maddie

That’s just factually incorrect, the data shows that middle and high income people were more likely to vote Mamdani and lower income people were more likely to vote for Cuomo.

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Christof
Christof
15 days ago
Reply to  Maddie

You don’t deserve at least two of your thumbs up. I gave you one completely by accident then trying to “unlike” it I accidentally added another one. Just don’t want you to get unduly full of yourself. I support Zohran Mamdani.

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Billy A
Billy A
15 days ago
Reply to  Maddie

So sad you are 🙄

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Melissa
Melissa
15 days ago
Reply to  Maddie

Obama did not divide the nation. He was a moderate who was overwhelingly popular. There were no massive protests or there was strong economic growth under his watch. Racists just couldn’t handle it. (Cue “I’m the least racist person…” Or “Playing the race card” in three two….)

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Jay
Jay
16 days ago
Reply to  Mark

WEA?

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Dino Vercotti
Dino Vercotti
16 days ago
Reply to  Mark

Keeping it retro, boomer? 23 Skidoo!

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Vincent
Vincent
16 days ago

Pretty embarrassed for the UWS.

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Barbra Music
Barbra Music
15 days ago
Reply to  Vincent

I am too! Why are people here so conservative!? That’s a big change- I guess their only concern is how it might affect the super wealthy rather than the rest of us who struggle!? Aren’t they looking at what Cuomo really did, or are they just believing the NY Times? He still owes the city $60 million for his legal fees for preying on women. Is that really ok with the UWS?.

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An Actual Scientist
An Actual Scientist
15 days ago
Reply to  Barbra Music

“Understands reality” != “Conservative”

There is no chance you’re getting free groceries, free buses, free rent, and free everything else you want. Aside from the obvious reasons (the NYC mayor doesn’t control the MTA), it’s just basic economics.

The reason rent is expensive is because you make it impossible to build (for example: see the decrepit church at 86th, which we could be replacing with HOUSING), you encourage hundreds of thousands of economic migrants to flood into the city (those people have to live somewhere!), and you don’t let landlords recover their costs by charging market rents.

The result is an ever-decreasing supply of affordable housing, as old apartments decay but cannot be renovated, new apartments don’t enter the market, and ~50% of the rental market clings viciously to their rent-controlled units.

These are just facts. You will not change them by voting for an idiot who promises you the moon and the stars. Cuomo was a horrible candidate, but Mamdani won by selling a generation of gullible, under-educated children something for nothing. Good luck with that.

Last edited 15 days ago by An Actual Scientist
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EdNY
EdNY
16 days ago
Reply to  Vincent

Or proud.

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Jay
Jay
16 days ago
Reply to  Vincent

My part of the UWS voted for Mamdani, and I don’t live north of 96th.

Broadway seems to be the big divider.

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Kimberly S.
Kimberly S.
15 days ago
Reply to  Jay

I love seeing this so specifically. My block voted blue (Cuomo) but I’m bordered by a big chunk of orange. Guess I just have to go north a street to hang out with people. 😉

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Katherine
Katherine
16 days ago

Older people with money did not vote for a socialist. Shocker.

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Vigil Thompson
Vigil Thompson
16 days ago
Reply to  Katherine

Older people are Socialist Workers Party, not the Anti-Semitic Democratic Socialists.

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Carmella Ombrella
Carmella Ombrella
15 days ago
Reply to  Vigil Thompson

Older people are (or were) also Socialist Party, not DSA, which is something else altogether.

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Jay
Jay
15 days ago
Reply to  Carmella Ombrella

What is the DSA in your estimation?

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MSL
MSL
16 days ago
Reply to  Katherine

Actually yoingercfolks on the West Side have money.
Check out all the younger folks living in luxury apartments, like Riverside South.
And money to eat out, lots of food delivery.

Mostly anyone moving to West Side these days has money.

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Mark
Mark
16 days ago
Reply to  MSL

“Mostly anyone moving to West Side these days has money.”

We’re going to change that.

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UWS
UWS
16 days ago
Reply to  Mark

Yep, they’re all gonna move elsewhere not in this city. Enjoy!

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MSL
MSL
16 days ago
Reply to  Mark

Hi Mark,
Do the lifelong residents get to stay?
People born and raised here.
Or are they just the “leftovers”?

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Your Neighbor, Kay
Your Neighbor, Kay
16 days ago

Honestly? Not as bad as I expected. Happy to see Brad Lander get a good chunk of votes from my neighbors! He’s a great guy and hope he is part of the next admin.

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Not the Real UWSDad
Not the Real UWSDad
16 days ago
Reply to  Your Neighbor, Kay

Have to disagree – Lander turned out to be a big disappointment for me. His cross-endorsement seemed to be nothing more to me than an attempt to gain himself a seat on Mamdani’s administration once he saw his own chances of winning the primary were slim. Some people may say that was a smart move, I say it was cowardly. Lander should have pushed for his own candidacy. Further, as the City’s comptroller he should have stepped up and called out Mamdani for how unrealistic some of his proposals are and how much they will actually cost NYers.

And he stood in complete silence as Mamdani and his campaign justified “globalize the intifada.”

Unfortunately, in my opinion, the candidates on the ballot were awful. It’s horrible when the only viable alternative is someone you have to hold your nose and fill in the bubble for.

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Kimberly S.
Kimberly S.
15 days ago
Reply to  Not the Real UWSDad

That’s one take. Most people found him honest, refreshing, cooperative, and all about moving the City forward.

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Retumos
Retumos
16 days ago

Predictions- Cuomo sounded done last night. No independent run. There will be desperate search to find an “anyone but the socialist” candidate who can self-fund a campaign like Bloomberg (Bill Ackman?). Then there will be a push for Adams and Sliwa to drop out and unite behind that person. Hochul will be primaried by the far left, maybe by Laetitia James. My house in the ‘burbs runs up in value as another wave of people leave the city but can’t leave the state yet due to family or work!

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living here
living here
16 days ago
Reply to  Retumos

Last night was a win for those of us who live here, and a loss for those of us who view the suburbs as their home. Glad you like it our there – enjoy it and please stay out of our city’s civic life.

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SB_UWS
SB_UWS
15 days ago
Reply to  living here

Mic drop!!!!

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Not the Real UWSDad
Not the Real UWSDad
16 days ago
Reply to  living here

I live here in the City, don’t have a suburban home and don’t consider this a win. I think Mamdani sold us a bill of goods. He promised many things that he has absolutely no control over and provided no details on how he is going to fund all of his “free” stuff. Simply raising taxes never works.
And how neighborly of you to make a comment like that when you know nothing of the poster’s residency.

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Emma
Emma
15 days ago
Reply to  Not the Real UWSDad

Totally agree. However, as Steven Colbert said, I really am looking forward to my free bus.

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UWS Dad
UWS Dad
16 days ago
Reply to  living here

Exactly! Cuomo spent the last 30 years in the suburbs, moved here five minutes ago and ran a lazy campaign with almost no interviews or taking questions from reporters.
ZM wasn’t my first pick but I’m glad Cuomo will be sent packing

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Anon
Anon
16 days ago
Reply to  living here

Where do you count people like me? I live on UWS but if Mandami is elected and raises taxes I will make my weekend home my home and use the apartment just for occasional visits. And I’m not alone.

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SB_UWS
SB_UWS
15 days ago
Reply to  Anon

A foot on NYC soil = taxed. Drop a FOR SAKE sign on it, A!

Last edited 15 days ago by SB_UWS
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Barbra Music
Barbra Music
15 days ago
Reply to  Anon

Case in point- you are one of the fortunate ones who have two homes, when so many can barely afford one. Why can’t you pay more taxes so those who have much less struggle less!? When did people get so selfish? What you should do is give up your apt here for someone who really needs it, as clearly you have no concern for those who need help!

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Eye Roll
Eye Roll
15 days ago
Reply to  Anon

“Weekend home” says it all.

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Jenna
Jenna
16 days ago
Reply to  Anon

Bye!!

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David
David
16 days ago
Reply to  Anon

Hopefully Mamdani will heavily tax apartments that are only infrequently used and not occupied by full-time NYC residents. Those mostly empty apartments are a big reason rents are so high.

It’s time to tax those that take advantage of NYC’s amenities and features but don’t pay their fair share of the taxes.

If an apartment doesn’t have somebody paying NYC income tax, it should get an unoccupied residency tax.

If somebody is rich enough to have an apartment inside the city and another residence outside, money is clearly not a problem for them!

Thank you for your comment and reminding everyone of this!

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Robin Halpern
Robin Halpern
15 days ago
Reply to  David

David, I beg to differ. You’re making a huge assumption. I know plenty of NYC residents that have a second home outside the city who have very limited income. There are a variety of reasons that exist for this. It’s best not to generalize with these types of statements.

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Jon
Jon
15 days ago
Reply to  David

Ah, yes, NYC, famously a low-tax city.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
15 days ago
Reply to  David

Dear child: you do realize we pay a huge amount in property taxes, right? The owner of a modest 1 bedroom apartment probably pays more in taxes than the income tax on these people who are paying a “fair share”, as you say.

The reason rent is high is because we do not build housing. Putting new restrictions on who can own property will only make that problem worse.

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Barbra Music
Barbra Music
15 days ago
Reply to  Adam Smith

Oh, they build housing all right- for those who make 6 figures or more- it’s become only about luxury living. Maybe , just maybe people are getting sick of this!

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Not the Real UWSDad
Not the Real UWSDad
16 days ago
Reply to  David

Aren’t these apartment owners already paying real estate taxes? And, if they are “rich enough” as you’ve speculated, their apartments are probably of higher value and thus they are paying higher real estate taxes.

Raising taxes never works on its own? What entitlements are we willing to cut in order for these plans to work?

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Leon
Leon
16 days ago
Reply to  David

And the flip side of that is to much more actively enforce the rules about those who are violating the rules and staying in rent regulated apartments and/or NYCHA they shouldn’t be in. That would like free up a lot of affordable housing. Find the owner of any car valued at over $X in NYCHA and figure out how they can afford it.

This should not just be a witch hunt against the rich (though I don’t disagree with your proposals). Everyone should pay their share.

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Retumos
Retumos
16 days ago
Reply to  living here

I was born and bred in Manhattan. I lived in three different boroughs and worked in three others over decades. Thats probably more than a lot of WSR posters can claim. So until there is a residency requirement to post, and as long as my state taxes help to fund things in the city, my two cents are as good as anyone elses and founded in a lot of lived experience in NYC. If you think yesterday was a win for city folk I will politely disagree. But it was a huge win for homeowners within commuting distance. You may not be one of them, but judging from a lot of the comments and likes here there will be quite a few city residents looking to change their plans for the future.

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Sartre Was Right
Sartre Was Right
10 days ago
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Just moved out of NYC. So glad I did. Socialism is the politics of envy and will destroy the little good that remains of the city. Only request: when the people who voted for these clowns (Mamdani/Lander) can no longer tolerate living in that slow motion train wreck, don’t bring your politics with you.

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Hold it
Hold it
16 days ago
Reply to  Retumos

Gotta be honest man it’s kinda great to have people like you OUT of the city

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Retumos
Retumos
16 days ago
Reply to  Hold it

NYC always has just enough room for impolite people such as yourself. Enjoy your bubble.

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Hold it
Hold it
12 days ago
Reply to  Retumos

‘just enough’ that’s cute. Enjoy your congestion pricing fees and the Metro North ride

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S.A.
S.A.
16 days ago
Reply to  Retumos

“I lived in three different boroughs and worked in three others over decades.”

TIL that NYC has 6 boroughs.

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Jerry
Jerry
16 days ago
Reply to  Retumos

For what it’s worth: New York City’s share of state revenue payments is around 45 percent, and it receives 40 percent of expenditures. Downstate suburbs (Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam) provide roughly 27 percent of taxes and other revenues, nearly 10 percentage points more than they receive in aid for education, health care, state payroll, and other expenditures. The remainder of the state provides ~25 percent of the revenues and receives ~35 percent of expenditures.

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Andrew
Andrew
16 days ago

The map is a bit misleading for the UWS. While Cuomo “won” the upper west side, I think that is mostly because Lander got so many votes. In these districts Lander was picking up 20%+ of the vote, while Mamdani was just a bit behind Cuomo for first place.

If you add up the Lander and Mamdani votes for a lot of the districts it wasn’t really close. If you played out the ranked choice in these districts I bet Mamdani would win most of them.

Many of these districts show Cuomo winning with below 40% of the vote and Mamdani and Lander together well over 50%. By comparison the precincts just east of the park have Cuomo often getting often over 60%. Nevertheless, the UWS and UES appear to be the same color.

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Doug Garr
Doug Garr
15 days ago
Reply to  Andrew

Andrew is correct. Most voters on the UWS preferred either Lander or Mamdani. It was almost as if it was a statement that said “anybody but Andrew.” And I think this was a partial strategy in their “cross endorsement.” Knowing Cuomo, and I mean personally, he would be a much worse mayor than he was a governor.

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subway
subway
16 days ago
Reply to  Andrew

Yes – thanks for the data context

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Carlos
Carlos
16 days ago
Reply to  Andrew

Agreed that with ranked choice, these sub-analyses, while interesting, are limited in value. I voted for Tilson then Cuomo. And I know others on the UWS who did the same. Not enough of us to likely move the needle, but we matter. And similarly there are enough others who put Lander (as you noted), Stringer, Adams, etc. first but Cuomo or Mamdani below that that it also impacts the analysis. Across the whole city it doesn’t matter a lot, but over a few hundred votes or less, they do matter.

There is no ranked choice voting in the general election so the strategies could get interesting, particularly if Cuomo runs (though last night it seemed like he was done).

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Eugene Nickerson
Eugene Nickerson
15 days ago
Reply to  Carlos

Zohran’s canvassers were working very hard on the UWS and a lot of West Siders wanted Lander. Any moderate candidate that runs to succeed Gale in 2029 or Brad’s senate seat next year will have to convince Mamdani and Lander voters to vote for them

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Joanne
Joanne
16 days ago

Where does Staten Island fit in? Though probably the reddest of the boroughs, I would think that the Dems there would have voted for Cuomo. Just curious.

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EdNY
EdNY
16 days ago
Reply to  Joanne

All eleven of them?

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AAM
AAM
16 days ago

Upper West Sider here who didn’t rank Cuomo or Mamdani. Lander was my #1!

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Anna
Anna
15 days ago
Reply to  AAM

Same! I refused to rank 1) an old white dude with a pattern of sexual harassment and 2) an inexperienced radical with lots of sound bites and no realistic policies.

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Rachel
Rachel
16 days ago

The Broadway divide is so interesting

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Rent Stabilized on WEA
Rent Stabilized on WEA
15 days ago
Reply to  Rachel

Pure speculation but if I had to take a guess, it’s indicative of renting vs. owning. Much higher proportion of owners on Riverside, WEA, and (to some extent) Broadway. Also lots of ownership on CPW. Which means the higher majority of renters around Columbus and Amsterdam. And they are more likely to gravitate to the “freeze rents” slogan.

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Sal Bando
Sal Bando
16 days ago

Check this out, the Mamdani/Cuomo map is almost the same as the map of people who own cars and those who don’t
https://www.jalopnik.com/1895759/nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani-won-non-car-owners/

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Jay
Jay
15 days ago
Reply to  Sal Bando

Correlation does not equal causation

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JMN
JMN
15 days ago
Reply to  Sal Bando

Sal ,
1. There is significant car ownership in boroughs especially Queens and demographically non-white. Southeast Asians (with cars) especially voted for Mamdani.
2. The visionary/chief funder of TransAlt, Mark Gorton (wealthy tech person who backed RFK Jr.) contributed to Lander and to Cuomo and is backing Mamdani. (Gorton also funded negative PAC campaign against City Council rep Chris Marte )
3. What would be really interesting- data on Uber users. Folks using Uber regularly is like owning a car.

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UWS Dad
UWS Dad
16 days ago
Reply to  Sal Bando

Very cool! Love to see it. Transit utopia here we come?
Makes sense as Cuomo is famously a creature of the suburbs who moved here five minutes ago.

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Maria
Maria
15 days ago
Reply to  UWS Dad

He grew up in Queens.

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UWS Dad
UWS Dad
15 days ago
Reply to  Maria

… and then spent 30 years in Westchester and Albany before moving back to run for mayor

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Nancy
Nancy
16 days ago

Congrats New Yorkers on believing the rest of the country supports this guy, AOC and the likes of her. Way to ruin a good city with an inexperienced and inept newbie. . I lived there for almost my whole life. So glad I’m gone now. Good luck. You will need it.

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Jenna
Jenna
16 days ago
Reply to  Nancy

Nancy would you come back if we elected Cuomo for you?

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UWS Dad
UWS Dad
16 days ago
Reply to  Nancy

Echo those comments, who cares what the rest of the country thinks its our mayor, and they don’t get a say!

Color me shocked (not really) that so many of the more conservative commentors don’t live on the UWS…

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Eugene Nickerson
Eugene Nickerson
15 days ago
Reply to  UWS Dad

At the same time, hard core Democrats from Manhattan like to charter private buses and drive their private cars to competitive districts to tell people who to vote for and that if they disagree that they are a horrible human being.

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UWS Dad
UWS Dad
15 days ago
Reply to  Eugene Nickerson

Why are all my replies being blocked? Eugene frequently pops up with some unrelated grievance and then no responses are allowed

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Your Neighbor, Kay
Your Neighbor, Kay
16 days ago
Reply to  Nancy

Why does the rest of the country need to support him, he’s running for mayor?

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Anon
Anon
16 days ago
Reply to  Nancy

Nancy,

We don’t believe the rest of the country supports him. We don’t care what the rest of the country thinks. Why would we?

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Leon
Leon
16 days ago
Reply to  Anon

Because Fox News will use this to activate its base and re-elect another Trump-type (or Trump himself if he has his way). We look like idiots.

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UWS Dad
UWS Dad
15 days ago
Reply to  Leon

Fox News will take literally anything and twist it to rile up their base. We can’t let their bad faith coverage dictate how we run NYC.

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Frank Padavan
Frank Padavan
14 days ago
Reply to  UWS Dad

Streetsblog does the same thing! We shouldn’t let their bad faith coverage influence transportation in NYC!

Last edited 14 days ago by Frank Padavan
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Simone
Simone
16 days ago
Reply to  Nancy

thanks nancy, you can log off now! bye!

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Vigil Thompson
Vigil Thompson
16 days ago

That Mamdani won is a huge embarrassment. Hopefullly, Cuomo will go on as an Independent and get the vote out. Mamdani would be a disaster as mayor.

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Maria
Maria
16 days ago
Reply to  Vigil Thompson

Mamdani is the child of Mira Nair, the film director, and Mahmood Mamdani, a well paid Columbia University professor. Nice that he touts Socialist ideals while coming from such a privileged family!

Last edited 16 days ago by Maria
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Sartre Was Right
Sartre Was Right
10 days ago
Reply to  Maria

Marx was also a spoiled rich kid who basically crafted a school of thought to justify his horrid personal choices. History shows that totalitarian garbage is often bolstered by the intelligentsia.

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Simone
Simone
15 days ago
Reply to  Maria

It honestly is really nice that he comes from a privileged background, and recognizes that others deserve access to the same comfort that he has.

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Jay
Jay
15 days ago
Reply to  Maria

He thinks people should have access to stable housing, good medical care, nutrition, and learning. Shocking.

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Carmella Ombrella
Carmella Ombrella
15 days ago
Reply to  Jay

It’s not shocking that he knows people need and deserve these things – clearly they do. What’s shocking is that people believe that a 33-year-old with no experience running anything but a social media campaign can provide them all those things. For free.

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Not the Real UWSDad
Not the Real UWSDad
16 days ago
Reply to  Vigil Thompson

I think it will be a mistake if Cuomo runs as an independent. In my opinion, Cuomo and Adams will split the vote and almost certainly hand Mamdani the victory.

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Sam
Sam
16 days ago

Trump, Republicans and MAGA are going totally ballistic over this win.

So, you know it’s right.

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UWS Dad
UWS Dad
15 days ago
Reply to  Sam

Lets not forget that Eric Adams was the NYPost’s candidate last time and he got all this national media praise. Look at what a disaster his administration has been!

I’m not on board with all of ZM’s ideas but he was far better than Cuomo, let’s give him a chance and see how it plays out

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Miri
Miri
15 days ago
Reply to  Sam

Clearly you did great in basic logic 101 class in college. They are going ballistic because a nutso socialist won in an historically capitalist and democratic country.

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James Monroe.2025
James Monroe.2025
16 days ago

Lander is a great kapo.

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nycityny
nycityny
16 days ago

My preference was for Cuomo to win the primary. But I have to say the reaction of so many, including commenters here, has been so entertaining to me that I am enjoying Mamdani’s win. People are predicting the end of New York City yet we have a complete idiot in the White House. A New York mayor can only do so much. Much of the city is controlled by the state, including the MTA who decides whether buses are free.

I’m thinking those who are so upset should wake up and smell the coffee. Something happened yesterday that surprised a lot of us. We should learn from it rather than dismiss it as embarassing or insane.

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Your Neighbor, Kay
Your Neighbor, Kay
15 days ago
Reply to  nycityny

I appreciate this perspective

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Sam
Sam
15 days ago
Reply to  nycityny

Idiot in the White House? Forget about the bluster for a moment and whether you like Trump the person or not. Here is what has happened in less than six months (in brief):
– End to the border disasater
– Increased NATO spending to 5% thereby reducing the burden on US tax payers
– Forced other countries to re-look at the insane tariffs they have been charging for US goods for years
– Taken out Iran’s nuclear capabilities which other President’s wished they could have done
– Cease fire on the Iran/Israel war

Idiot? Maybe as a person, but not as a President.

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Rosie
Rosie
15 days ago
Reply to  Sam

Sam, your response was interesting. May I respectfully suggest you dig deeper into some of the “victories” you cite? F

For instance:
— Increased NATO spending will not reduce the US tax burden. The 5% figure is the percentage of each country’s GDP that they will spend on their national defense budget (not money they give to NATO; there are no NATO “dues.”). So France or Italy or Sweden increasing its defense budge has no impact on the US defense budget, which the GOP wants to raise….not lower.
— You suggest that Trump forced countries to reexamine their “insane tariffs.” Most had little or no tariffs on US goods previously. Now they do. For instance, during Biden the EU tariff rate on US goods averaged about 1%. Now, Europe has imposed higher retaliatory tariffs to protest Trump’s trade war. So, most foreign tariffs have gone up on our biggest trading partners.
— About Iran’s nuclear capabilities: before Trump silenced them, US analysts said that Iran had probably been set back a few months. Independent international analysts suggests that it may have been set back a few months to a year. Only Trump and some Israelis claim that it has been ended. (And international analysts generally agree that if Trump hadn’t cancelled Obama’s negotiated treaty in his first term-—which Iran was abiding by–we wouldn’t be in this dilemma. Iran started refining nuclear fuel only after Trump ended the treaty in his first term.
— About trump ending the Iran/Israel war….he also helped start it. How much credit does one get for ending a war that you started? (N.B., Israeli newspapers report that Trump’s earlier offer to negotiate with Iran was coordinated with Bibi to make the Iranians let their guard down.)

PLEASE do not take my word for any of this. No reason you should trust me. But if you’re honestly interested, you can readily google everything I mentioned and see for yourself.

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Sam
Sam
14 days ago
Reply to  Rosie

Rosie, thanks for your considered response.
I could refute each of your points with additional data, but that would be a much longer discussion. A couple of data points – Germany has a 10% tariff on US cars imported into the country, the US has 2.5% for German cars. India/China have huge “Made in …” policies which result in significant tariffs on all kinds of products. The list goes on. I could refute your NATO and other points as well.

My macro point, which I hope you can agree with, is that while Trump may be an “idiot” as expressed by the original poster, there are tangible results he has generated which are generally focused on reducing how the rest of the world has used the US as a money spigot/security blanket/pick your poison.

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Your Neighbor, Kay
Your Neighbor, Kay
15 days ago
Reply to  Sam

Glad you’re having a positive experience with creeping fascism.

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roger
roger
15 days ago
Reply to  Sam

Increasing NATO spending doesn’t relieve US taxpayers of anything. What it does do is make war more likely. What else is the point of “defense” spending?

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Sal Bando
Sal Bando
15 days ago
Reply to  Sam

Masked anonymous gunmen are literally kidnapping good people off the streets.

He’s trying to bankrupt the country, to take away health care from poor people, and to massively increase inequality with his embarrassingly named Big Beautiful Bill.

He doesn’t have any clue what he’s doing in Iran, he thought he could drop some bombs and take all the glory and now he’s panicking and attacking the media for reporting that maybe the attack wasn’t all he said it was.

The country just announced it’s pulling out of the most prominent international vaccine organization, while his insane HHS appointee RFK Jr. fired all the best vaccine experts and is setting out to rewrite the vaccination schedule for children.

FEMA has been effectively shut down for the most part because billionaires don’t want to pay taxes.

He’s taking millions in bribes through some crypto scam.

I can go on and on and on…….he is absolutely the most idiotic president ever.

Last edited 15 days ago by Sal Bando
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Mohamed Jaffa
Mohamed Jaffa
15 days ago

The tide is turning my friends. This will not be the same city in 10 years time.

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bklynlady
bklynlady
15 days ago

I don’t know what fantasy world you are all living in! Mamdani has never had a job, and zero experience running anything let alone NYC! If he wins the city will further deteriorated, he will finish the job deblasio started! Have none of you learned basic economics???

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Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon
15 days ago

For the love of god they need to teach economics to K-12 kids

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Kimberly S.
Kimberly S.
15 days ago

Disappointed in my neighborhood. Get with the times people!

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Ida P. Melnick
Ida P. Melnick
15 days ago

Maybe it’s a sign that many who bother to vote want change? Even if the logistics haven’t been thought through, it’s a sign that they are rejecting the same old same old because this is how we got here? I’m always amazed at how low voter turnout is. So I back open primaries if we really want to affect change. Otherwise, candidates and parties should take note and learn from this how campaigns need to be run today if they want to generate interest and enthusiasm from voters. But I’m guessing, the same old same old will nay say it and this is why we are where we are. The city is changing. The demographics of who lives here today (and votes) and what people want. You can list all your years, boroughs lived and worked, or how you order your bagel. It doesn’t really matter. New Yorkers who vote will decide what kind of city they want going forward.

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Nick
Nick
15 days ago

This article saddens me. I grew up on the Upper West Side, lived there for thirty years, It started to change with Reagan’s election as more monied interests moved in. Now it is one big coffee bar and a bank on every corner. The Upper west Side used to have character, now it has rich people. The Upper West Side used to be progressive, no more. A Mayoral candidate of color won, the Upper West Side supported a sexual abuser. The Upper West Side lost….Big time.

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Bronte's Mistress
Bronte's Mistress
14 days ago
Reply to  Nick

Many UWSers who canvassed or voted for Mamdani are tenants living in Brusco buildings. Or they are prospective tenants of Brusco buildings. It’s like I know things!

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subway
subway
14 days ago
Reply to  Nick

Nick –
The data for Cuomo, Lander and Mamdani indicates that votes for Mamdani and Lander combined were higher than Cuomo (except for a couple of election districts and even for those few, the combined were almost equal to Cuomo.)

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Sby
Sby
15 days ago

Mamdani must have quite a bit of cognitive dissonance—isn’t he from the anti colonizer wing of the party and yet he wants to be the mayor of all this stolen land? Maybe he has a secret plan to return it to the Lenape
He will be a disaster—look across the Hudson to Chicago—a mayor with a similar philosophy is sitting at about 10% approval once ppl saw what he was really about

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Kirk
Kirk
15 days ago

Wow, you’d think a bloodthirsty mob installed Robespierre in a ransacked City Hall from all the pearl-clutching! It’s not like a rapist felon became President of the United Stares or something equally unimaginable. A lot of people complain about polarization in our political sphere but then share outrageously catastrophic exaggerations about a candidate who isn’t just Republican-lite. The rending of garments is really quite unseemly and distracts us from real, tangible, present dangers.
#JeNeSuisPasJillKargman

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Barbra Music
Barbra Music
15 days ago
Reply to  Kirk

If any Upper West Siders bothered to go to the Anti Kings march it would have been very clear what the majority wants- CHANGE! We’re in the mess we’re in because the people voted in have been of the same mindset over and over. Things have to be shaken up to settle into the right direction. Give change a chance people & stray from your rigidity.

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Rahjif
Rahjif
15 days ago

I just need a clarification. This is just the results from ranked #1 votes? So all the game playing of how to rank and who to rank and cross endorsing was nonsense?

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Sal Bando
Sal Bando
15 days ago
Reply to  Rahjif

I don’t think anyone was anticipating such a large lead in the first round. They’re still going to run the ranked choice voting tabulation but it’s obvious who won.

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Bette
Bette
15 days ago

Terrible choices for mayor – criminals and socialists.

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AnnieNYC
AnnieNYC
15 days ago

Perhaps I am in a minority here, but personally, I believe people ought to vote their conscience (or their ‘least bad option’, or whatever it is that drives their decision) and then the rest is about how the chips fall. Sometimes our way, sometimes not. As long as we share this city, we’ll probably share myriad opinions (we’re not known for being shy about our views, us New Yorkers, and I love that about us, even if I don’t always like what the opinion IS). So, I’m just glad people voted. Will the result lead to energetic change or a Greenhorn’s mess remains to be seen. New York City is a place of constant change – for good, and not so good, and there and back again. We don’t need to agree, but can we perhaps agree that anything that isn’t apathy, is some win already?

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