Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani officially threw his support behind longtime friend Diana Moreno in her bid to succeed him in the State Assembly.
Mamdani announced his support for the Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed candidate from Athens Square Park in Astoria on Saturday as he prepares to leave the local office in Queens and ascend to City Hall as mayor.
Moreno and the mayor-elect, who met through the DSA, have been friends since his first run for the Assembly in 2020, and his support will likely be pivotal in her race against several other leftist candidates in the strongly progressive district…