Mr. Williams, a progressive who has served as public advocate since 2019, has been a forceful critic of Mayor Eric Adams. He faced two more moderate challengers.

New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani identified as both Asian and African American on his 2009 Columbia ...

Providing an alternative to establishment politics and an increasingly right-leaning party made all the difference for Mamdani, argues politics editor Lex McMenamin in this op-ed.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, poetry slam and drag king competitions are in town, it’s ...

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani under fire for communist-style language and radical political ideology, with ...

Just a few months ago, it appeared unlikely that Mayor Eric Adams of New York, who was facing federal corruption charges, ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that fellow mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo urged Adams to drop his reelection bid, saying the former governor has a “real history” of taking similar ...

Game of chicken: Eric Adams, Cuomo want each other out of NYC mayoral race The incumbent New York City mayor and Andrew Cuomo are each calling on the other to drop out, Adams said Monday.

A new poll finds Adams trailing Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo in the general election for mayor, and his corruption ...

Eric Adams was once a rising star in the Democratic Party. His reelection will hinge on taking down the newest one. Hours after Zohran Mamdani’s performance in New York City’s Democratic ...

Not only [Mamdani’s] unwillingness to do global intifada, but his unwillingness to apologize for mocking Hanukkah, just the unwillingness of just saying, ‘I’m wrong,’” Adams said.