The New York mayoral candidate is the son of Mahmood Mamdani, an Indian-born Ugandan Marxist scholar, and Mira Nair, a renowned Indian-American filmmaker.

We live in the wealthiest city in the world and it’s become unlivable for the people who built it. Half of all New York ...

Brooklyn: As a Democratic voter who has yet to feel a real spark of excitement about any mayoral candidate, I read with ...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, earlier this year, stood as little more than another name in a crowded, ...

The Democratic primary candidates for mayor all agree: the city faces a housing cost crisis.   Brad Lander says it requires ...

Last week’s debate confirmed that the Democrats running for mayor are competing almost exclusively on a near-irrelevant issue ...

The Democratic primary for comptroller, to fill the seat now held by Brad Lander, will most likely boil down to Mark Levine ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) faces a test of her political influence after endorsing a progressive candidate in the New York City mayoral race. Ocasio-Cortez backed New York state ...

Polls are notoriously fickle things, but recent ones in the New York City mayoral race have been fairly consistent: socialist ...

In the first New York City Democratic mayoral primary debate, frontrunner candidate Andrew Cuomo was relentlessly targeted by ...

The decision by Ms. Ramos, a state senator from Queens, is at odds with her frequent criticism of Andrew M. Cuomo, including ...

Ramos, who is also running for mayor, says she is staying in the race and will remain on the ballot in order to keep having a voice to advocate for her causes.