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Mamdani-endorsed NYC Council candidate trounced in special election
Debra Nussbaum Cohen
April 29, 2026

Lindsey Boylan, whom New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed and who has called the Israeli prime minister a “war criminal and a danger to Israel” and accused the Jewish state of “genocide,” conceded the special election in the New York City Council’s third district on Tuesday night…Some news outlets have reported that Carl Wilson’s win could mean that his the council would overturn the mayor’s recent veto of a bill that would call on the New York City Police Department to make a plan for a “buffer zone” free of protest obstruction around educational institutions. READ MORE

JTA Zohran Mamdani vetoes school ‘buffer zone’ bill against wishes of major Jewish groups Mayor Zohran Mamdani vetoed a “buffer zone” bill insulating “educational facilities” from protests on Friday morning, drawing the ire of a number of Jewish organizations that supported it. The bill, introduced by Jewish City Council member Eric Dinowitz, was part of a legislative package proposed in response to a pair of pro-Palestinian protests outside synagogues in the fall. In a statement — and an accompanying video — Mamdani said Dinowitz’s bill, Intro 175-B, posed concerns about limiting people’s right to protest, including “college students demanding their school divest from fossil fuels or demonstrating in support of Palestinian rights.”

FREE PRESS The Editors: Mamdani, Scapegoating the Rich Won’t Fill a $5.4 Billion Budget Hole New York City’s wealthy pay 40 percent of its bills. The mayor just declared war on them…The mayor’s class-warfare rhetoric may drive away the wealthy with more force than the actual tax. Mamdani singles out billionaire financier Ken Griffin in the video, exclaiming the $238 million price tag of his penthouse and putting the building on camera. It’s as if to say, There’s the enemy, New Yorkers, looking down on you from his spare palace.