| | | | |  | | By Erin Durkin, Anna Gronewold and Julian Shen-Berro | Presented by NextEra Energy | Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou still has not conceded in the race for the 10th Congressional District, but the chances are slim to none she'll be able to catch up to impeachment attorney Dan Goldman, who has been called the winner by The Associated Press. Thousands of absentee ballots will be counted starting next week, and the results won't be certified until September. Niou says she won't pull out until every vote is counted. Even then, the race might not be over: Chatter has been increasing that Niou could run against Goldman in the November general election on the line of the Working Families Party, which endorsed her. In the clearest indication yet she's at least entertaining the idea, she said in a statement to the Washington Post : "I'm currently speaking with WFP and my community about how we can best represent the needs of this district." And one of Niou's allies, former gubernatorial nominee Cynthia Nixon, is encouraging the challenge, putting out a fundraising appeal promoting a WFP run. "Dan Goldman spent $4M of his own money to buy a Congressional seat & won only 25% of the vote," she wrote. "Yuh-line Niou came within striking distance w/ grassroots energy. Should @yuhline stay in & run as a WFP candidate in November?" Others are condemning the idea , saying a costly internecine squabble will only hurt Democrats' efforts to thwart Republican gains in November. (In a redistricting quirk, the WFP line belongs to Rep. Mondaire Jones, who came in third in the race, but a switcheroo is possible.) Progressives are frustrated because three leading candidates associated with their wing of the party collectively took 59 percent of the vote, to 26 percent for Goldman. (Though it's no sure thing they all would have lined up for Niou: nationally-focused Jones voters may have been open to Goldman's pitch, while City Council Member Carlina Rivera and Niou disagree on several local development issues.) This is all reigniting debate about ranked-choice voting, which is used in city elections but not state or federal ones, which plausibly could have changed the outcome here. IT'S FRIDAY. Got tips, suggestions or thoughts? Let us know ... By email: EDurkin@politico.com and agronewold@politico.com, or on Twitter: @erinmdurkin and @annagronewold WHERE'S KATHY? Making a women's equality day announcement, speaking at a tree planting honoring former Gov. David Paterson, unveiling a highway sign, and appearing on New York NOW with Dan Clark. WHERE'S ERIC? Holding a ribbon cutting for the new Tommie Agee Middle School and speaking at the Masjid Malcolm Shabazz Mosque. PROGRAMMING NOTE: New York Playbook won't publish from Monday, Aug. 29-Monday, Sept. 5. We'll be back on our normal schedule on Tuesday, Sept. 6.
| | A message from NextEra Energy: NextEra Energy, the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun, and a global leader in battery storage, is committing to the most ambitious carbon-emissions-reduction goal ever set by an energy producer, Real Zero™. Learn more. | | | |  | What City Hall's reading | | Mayor's curbside trash push peeves powerful union, by POLITICO's Danielle Muoio Dunn: Mayor Eric Adams has rankled senior officials with 32BJ SEIU, the nation's largest property service workers' union and an influential supporter of his campaign, with a proposal to limit the hours buildings can put trash out for pickup. In recent weeks, Adams has focused much of his agenda on addressing quality-of-life nuisances, using a sledgehammer to tear down abandoned dining sheds in Manhattan and demonstrating composting at a press conference in Queens. But the most recent impasse with the building workers union highlights how Adams has struggled at times to build the kind of coalition he needs to execute major policy initiatives. NYPD cop asks SCOTUS to pause city's vaccine mandate, by POLITICO's Max Jaeger: An NYPD detective is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the city's vaccine mandate for municipal workers, arguing that Mayor Eric Adams' decision to exempt Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving and other athletes and performers proves it's an arbitrary rule. In late February, Adams said he wanted "so badly" to grant the carveout for Irving, who was benched during home games in Brooklyn under former Mayor Bill de Blasio's vaccine policy. Adams hesitated, however, saying he didn't want to "send the wrong message" at a time when the city was "telling countless number of New York City employees, 'If you don't follow the rules, you won't be able to be employed.'" A month later, he relented by exempting athletes and performers while acknowledging the city was "treating our performers differently because they live and play in New York City." "NYC enlists community groups to help close monkeypox vaccine gaps for Black and brown residents," by Gothamist's Caroline Lewis and Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky: "New York City is finally showing some progress toward quelling this summer's alarming monkeypox outbreak — but the city is calling on community groups to close a gap in vaccines for Black and brown New Yorkers. The number of new cases is starting to trend downward across the five boroughs each day, while the number of people vaccinated against the virus climbs toward 70,000 total, according to the latest municipal data. But in recent days, city and state health officials have acknowledged that vaccination progress across demographic groups has been uneven, and that there needs to be a greater focus on equity when it comes to outreach and immunization." City settles with two 'ghost gun' sellers, by POLITICO's Julian Shen-Berro: Two out-of-state sellers of so-called ghost guns have agreed to halt sales of kits and gun parts to New York City residents and hand over a list of buyers, as part of a settlement after city officials sued them for allegedly violating local laws. The lawsuit, filed in June, took aim at five ghost gun retailers, who city officials said illegally sold gun parts that could be assembled into weapons. News of the settlement came as new federal regulations took effect Wednesday requiring ghost gun kits include serial numbers. Mayor Eric Adams, who has made crime-reduction a centerpiece of his time in office, has blamed companies that make or sell ghost guns for exacerbating a surge in gun violence in recent years. — "NYPD adopts emergency rule ahead of new permit policy for concealed carry license," by amNewYork's Dean Moses: "The NYPD announced an 'emergency rule' late Wednesday afternoon setting new parameters for individuals seeking to obtain permits to carry guns in New York City. The rule aims to bring the city in compliance with a Supreme Court decision handed down in June that overturned New York state's 109-year-old permit laws, with the conservative majority claiming that the laws interfered with individual rights to self-defense and to bear arms. … According to the police department, a new fundamental pivot when applying for a concealed carry permit will no longer force aspiring candidates to prove proper cause, which required them to demonstrate a need for the firearm." "Survival Games and Months of Missed School: How Migrant Children Are Adjusting to New Lives in NYC," by The City's Gabriel Poblete : "Sitting on a Manhattan sidewalk on a sunny afternoon, Franyerson, who's 9, rolled and shaped purple Play-Doh into a heart. This sweet New York City childhood moment was a rare pause in a journey that has taken him and his father thousands of miles, from Venezuela through the jungle spanning Colombia and Panama, up through Central America and Mexico and across the Rio Grande. Franyerson and his dad were waiting outside the 30th Street Men's Intake Center, a massive homeless shelter on the East Side, for a ride that would ferry them up to the homeless family reception center in The Bronx, known as PATH." — The state of Texas is sending some asylum seekers to New York City with barcoded bracelets on their wrists. — The city is using 14 hotels to house migrants. "Commuters sound off at MTA's first congestion pricing public hearing," by Gothamist's Catalina Gonella and Phil Corso: "The MTA's congestion pricing plan to reduce traffic created a jam of another kind on Thursday when hundreds of people signed up to speak at the agency's first public hearing on the matter. The plan, which would toll drivers in Manhattan south of 60th Street as much as $23 during rush hour, was designed to lessen traffic congestion by as much as 20%, according to an MTA analysis. It's been a controversial topic since the plan was unveiled earlier this summer, and the heated debate served as a backdrop as the MTA opened the discussion to the public on Thursday in its first of six public hearings."
| | | | STEP INSIDE THE WEST WING: What's really happening in West Wing offices? Find out who's up, who's down, and who really has the president's ear in our West Wing Playbook newsletter, the insider's guide to the Biden White House and Cabinet. For buzzy nuggets and details that you won't find anywhere else, subscribe today. | | | | | | | WHAT ALBANY'S READING | | "Gov. Kathy Hochul sounds support for NYC class-size bill, with changes," by WNYC's Jon Campbell: "Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday offered tepid support for a bill that would mandate significantly smaller class sizes in New York City schools, suggesting that a compromise could be coming within days. Hochul made the comments on WNYC's 'Brian Lehrer Show,' where Lehrer asked her directly whether she would sign or veto the controversial measure that Mayor Eric Adams has criticized as an unfunded mandate. Her comments, though vague, offered her clearest stance yet on the controversial measure that's supported by teachers' unions but opposed by some parents as well as the Citizens Budget Commission. 'I'm looking closely at it,' Hochul said. 'I am inclined to be supportive. I just have to work out a few more details with the mayor. I spoke to him about it yesterday.'" "Hochul on her next Court of Appeals pick: No litmus test," by Spectrum's Susan Arbetter: "'The committee is currently collecting applications for the soon-to-be-open position. 'I want to make sure that this committee knows that I'm not having a litmus test related to anyone's past experiences, whether they've been a defense lawyer, a prosecutor or an academic or someone who is a lawyer in the private sector, or a judge. I'm looking for a thoughtful jurist, someone who has independence,' she said. Hochul also stated that she's looking to elevate the court's prestige. 'This is a place where people used to be selecting Supreme Court justices from. I want to get back to that pre-eminence,' she said." "Zeldin ramps up attacks on Hochul after Dem digs rival on fracking, abortion," by New York Post's Zach Williams : "New York's gubernatorial race heated up Thursday as Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul and Republican challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin exchanged verbal blows on taxes, safe injection sites, bail reform and a state ban on fracking. 'That idea is dead on arrival,' Hochul told WNYC's 'Brian Lehrer Show' of lifting the fracking restriction. 'No way are we going to go backwards to our commitment to protect the environment. And this is just another example of how Lee Zeldin is the one out of touch with New York values.'" — " Lee Zeldin campaigns in the Bronx with controversial reverend," by NY1's Zack Fink: "The Republican candidate for governor, Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin, campaigned in the Bronx Thursday alongside former City Councilmember Rev. Ruben Sr., a conservative Democrat with a history of controversial comments. With just over two months to go until the November general election, Zeldin was in the heavily Democratic Bronx, but managed to find a place friendly to Republican ideas in Diaz Sr.'s congregation. … The last high-profile name to speak at Diaz Sr.'s church was former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in March." ATTN ALBANY DENIZENS: The former Public House 42 is on track to become a politics-focused upscale bar with an accompanying cigar lounge. #UpstateAmerica: Your guide to the over-the-top and 100 percent necessary mixed drinks at the 2022 State Fair.
| | | | A message from NextEra Energy:   | | | | | FROM THE DELEGATION | | How New York's GOP chair beat Paladino, Stefanik and his Republican foes, by POLITICO's Anna Gronewold: Rep. Elise Stefanik represents a region on the opposite side of the state from New York's new 23rd Congressional District. Yet she went to great lengths to affect the outcome of the Republican primary there on Tuesday — and failed. Stefanik not only endorsed Carl Paladino, a Buffalo developer and one of the most controversial figures in modern New York politics. She also dispatched her trusted aides to the district in Western New York, where they personally advised the candidate. It helped that former President Donald Trump told Stefanik to get behind Paladino, according to a Republican familiar with their discussions. It certainly helped too that Paladino had supported some of Stefanik's past races — even before she became the third-ranking member of the House GOP. "Loyalty," the Republican said, "is everything to Elise." But what also appears to have driven her was a running feud with the man who ultimately won the primary: Nick Langworthy, the chair of the state GOP. And local leaders took notice. " New York U.S. Rep.-elect Pat Ryan denounces 'traitorous' Trump after upset win in NY-19 special election," by New York Daily News' Dave Goldiner
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| | SOCIAL DATA BY DANIEL LIPPMAN | | HAPPY BIRTHDAY: HPD's Ahmed Tigani ... Bob Barnett ... Insider's Nicole Gaudiano ... Bloomberg Government's Maeve Sheehey … Stephen Dubner ... Jamal Halaby ... Pablo Ros ... Jim Harris of Bain MAKING MOVES — Ahmed Tigani was named first deputy commissioner for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. He was previously deputy commissioner for the Office of Neighborhood Strategies at HPD.
| | A message from NextEra Energy: NextEra Energy, an industry leader in low-cost renewable energy, announced its Real Zero™ goal to eliminate carbon emissions from its operations while enhancing reliability, resiliency, affordability and cost certainty for the many customer groups it serves. Learn more. | | | | | Real Estate | | "Many homeless families in New York City being denied housing vouchers, analysis finds," by amNewYork's Dean Moses : "One-third of families suffering homelessness in New York City are being denied access to housing vouchers as the crisis spikes and rent prices soar, according to one of the area's largest providers of shelter and supportive services. The Win organization revealed Thursday that many of the families they serve–including children–are being rejected for CityFHEPS vouchers due to what the organization cites as 'arbitrary and illogical city rules.'" " Greenpoint ferry stop further delayed until fall, according to Lendlease," by Greenpointers' Emma Davey: "They say the only assured things in life are death and taxes. Add another to that list — that property management group Lendlease will announce yet another delay to the return of the Greenpoint ferry stop. This morning, Council Member Lincoln Restler tweeted that Lendlease just informed his office that ferry service will not return until roughly late October/November." | | | | Follow us on Twitter | | | | Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook family Playbook | Playbook PM | California Playbook | Florida Playbook | Illinois Playbook | Massachusetts Playbook | New Jersey Playbook | New York Playbook | Ottawa Playbook | Brussels Playbook | London Playbook View all our political and policy newsletters | | Follow us | | | | |
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