As I go away, persons are nonetheless trickling in. Somebody within the lobby is telling their pal that their roommate needed to vote collectively and he or she needed to make up an excuse. I look again and see hire freeze dancing with Austin Powers, whereas Jet2 vacation continues to be speaking to her pal. Tylenol is nowhere to be seen.
Somebody dressed as Curtis Sliwa, I’m informed, was introduced because the costume occasion winner afterward within the evening. She wore a pink leather-based gown and beret, and held a tablet field that had “THC” and “Crohn’s” scribbled throughout it in sharpie.
In the previous few days of the mayoral race, Mamdani has been busier than ever, campaigning nicely into the evening. Yesterday he met with senior residents in Fort Greene, addressed canvassers in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and held a late-night information convention in Queens. In between stops, he made the time to seem on Monitor Star, a viral social media present the place visitors hearken to musical clips and should guess the artist. Then, whereas his younger canvassers have been partying in costume, he was visiting nurses and bus operators within the metropolis engaged on the evening shift.
Emily Gringorten.
“We ended the evening on Variety Plaza with a promise: my administration will battle simply as arduous for the New Yorkers who preserve our metropolis operating whereas most of us sleep,” Mamdani posted on X at 2:40 a.m.
I ask Camelia as I get to the steps what she’d do if he made an look.
“I might inform him good luck,” she says, “Subsequent time I see you, you’re going to be the mayor of NYC.”
