New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who is running for mayor of New York City, is being held up as a hero by progressives, but some say his arrest was political theater.

Mamdani said racist and Islamophobic threats are not new for him but they recently reached a “new level of specificity.”

A panel of New York Times opinion experts has picked NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as the top overall choice for mayor.

Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani bitterly clashed over age and experience Thursday in the final debate before New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, as Cuomo warned that electing the progressive state assemblyman is unprepared for the job and Mamdani hammered the former governor over scandals during his time in Albany.

Socialist Zohran Mamdani is surging and voters can rank five candidates in the crowded field. But will the anti-Cuomo candidates cooperate?

A judge has blocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams from letting federal immigration authorities reopen an office at the city's main jail.

​Last week Times Opinion published The Choice, a new project to help voters think through their options in high-stakes elections. We brought together 15 New Yorkers of varied backgrounds and expertise to assess the nine leading Democratic candidates for mayor of New York and choose which one would make the best leader for the city.

Democrats are spending a great deal of time and money these days on trying to reconnect with the blue-collar men of the American heartland. And for good reason. The Electoral College map and distribution of House districts mean that if the Blue Team keeps getting shellacked with working class voters in the Midwest and