Zohran Mamdani has been criticized for fantastical proposals, including free day care, free buses, a $70 billion bond issue, a $30-an-hour minimum wage and 200,000 union-built homes built for $500,000 apiece.
Campaign platforms might be irresponsible or even dishonest, but “whatever works” has become an accepted strategy — one that seems to have helped Mamdani, who leads his main competition in the mayoral election, Andrew Cuomo, by 13 points in the latest poll (more on that below).
Cuomo seems to have gotten the message. At a Crain’s mayoral forum on Wednesday, the former governor said: “The big project has to be 500,000 units of affordable housing on 300 sites simultaneously. I think that’s the first big project.”…