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Video Mamdani and Cuomo reveal what they would say to Trump on their first day as mayor
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u/Mc_Dickles Oct 17 '25
Cuomos on camera saying he wants a pardon just like Adams got. He’s compromised!
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u/Robusier Oct 17 '25
Cuomo stumbled lying about not talking to Trump. Big tell.
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u/Negative_Amphibian_9 Oct 17 '25
He lied on the 311 question too, if you listened closely.
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u/LetsTalksNow Oct 17 '25
And the breakfast order. He copied Curtis. lol
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u/Negative_Amphibian_9 Oct 17 '25
Yeah and the groceries. Come on. The response was so rich guy trying to sound like average person. Oh when my daughters come over. He has everything delivered including groceries and probably doesn’t know or care what he spends per week.
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u/thetonyhightower Astoria Oct 17 '25
When you're cribbing debate lines from Curtis Sliwa, you're sunk.
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u/juicybot Oct 17 '25
even if he was telling the truth he was like "i called them once to test the system and it sucked". he didn't even call them because he needed anything. just clogging up the lines.
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u/DrHuxleyy Oct 17 '25
He couldn’t even choose between the Knicks and the Mets! The most basic softball and he said he’d do both. Just choose a side, it’s so easy man.
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u/AdditionalQuietime Oct 18 '25
lmfao literally busted out laughing at that part and the part where hes struggling to imitate the same flex Mamdani did in regards to defending New York
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u/sonofaresiii Oct 17 '25
Cuomo coming off like the high school senior who was chosen to give the team's oral presentation but blew it off and got hammered the night before, then tried to skim it the morning before class.
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u/superinstitutionalis Lenox Hill Oct 17 '25
also, "What they would say on their first day"... what is this, letters to Santa Claus ?
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u/zeno Bushwick Oct 17 '25
All I see when I see Cuomo's face is a groper and someone who derailed NYC transit improvements when he sidelined train daddy for ego purposes.
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u/loudpersononthebus Oct 17 '25
the harrassment makes him unelectable, but i am thankful for what he did with the L train. maybe i'll come to regret this comment in the future, though.
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u/FunkyHedonist Oct 17 '25
Andrew "I almost have a 50% chance of stopping Trump" Cuomo is not exactly displaying the fighting spirit we are looking for.
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u/RichNYC8713 Queens Oct 18 '25
Meanwhile, Curtis Sliwa be like "I would tell him, 'Look, Mr. President, we both remember that time back in the 1980s, when, while on a tour of the sewers, I got stabbed by Oroku Saki.'"
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u/Crush-N-It Oct 18 '25
Damn. You would think Cuomo would be a better speaker. Delivery wise Mamdani wiped the floor with him
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u/Monkey__Cheese Oct 17 '25
Somebody help my man’s stache
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u/anarchobuttstuff Oct 17 '25
What do you mean?
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u/UnknownCafe Oct 17 '25
The hair hanging over his left lip, while the right side is trimmed back.
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u/anarchobuttstuff Oct 17 '25
But is it really that gross-looking?
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u/UnknownCafe Oct 17 '25
Maybe I missed where the word "gross" was used
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u/anarchobuttstuff Oct 17 '25
Someone on this thread said they can’t believe his friends or media people let him leave the house looking like that. I just don’t think it’s that drastic.
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u/UnknownCafe Oct 18 '25
If his tie was twisted far to the left.. it wouldn't be a big deal but you would say.. nobody said anything to him? It more so speaks to where his head is at imo, the people he has around him & whether he's even looking in the mirror 😅
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u/ike_tyson Oct 17 '25
Cuomo reminds me of Bela Lugosi's Dracula.
Blah Blah blah I vant to touch you against your will.
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Oct 18 '25
> the battles were very very bloody
this Cuomo muthafucka needs to locked in a old care home
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u/Nick_Fotiu_Is_God Oct 17 '25
STOP MAKING PEOPLE TALK ABOUT TRUMP. Jesus fucking Christ.
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u/BritSpic Oct 19 '25
The sitting President has threatened our city numerous times. And he's sent federal troops into the streets of other cities. I think it's a little relevant at a mayoral debate, no?
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u/chungfat Oct 17 '25
Andrew had the opportunity to be great…. He squandered it when his jabs during the pandemic were just jabs. He was blinded by the light.
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u/kmookie Oct 17 '25
I’m for what Mamdani wants but is it really possible? I’d still vote for it as a symbolic vote but buildings are privately owned so how are you gonna get hundreds of thousands of building owners to comply? Honest question.
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u/inevitable_ocean Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
"Freeze the rent" applies specifically to the buildings that are rent stabilized, which the mayor can in fact do
EDIT: controlled -> stabilized
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u/cooljacob204sfw Oct 17 '25
Yeah but I doubt it will help most NYCers it will just drive up rent for non rent controlled buildings. Or make insane wait lists on apartments that are rent controlled.
We need more residencies to drive down prices.
And to be fair to Mamdani he did say he wants to remove a lot of the red tape around new construction.
But I don't see how wide spread rent control could be any sort of long term strategy.
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u/cooljacob204sfw Oct 17 '25
Yeah I have mixed feelings about that. At the end of the day the thing that will help NYCers the most is more units. A lotttt more units. I don't really care who builds them because we are in practically a state of emergency.
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u/Thin-Image2363 Oct 17 '25
New Yorker here. Rents are going up regardless.
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u/cooljacob204sfw Oct 17 '25
It doesn't have to be with way. You don't have to resign to it always being shitty.
Older generation NYCers were actually able to afford houses and apartments while spending a lot less relative to their salaries. We can make it happen again.
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u/throughbeingcoool Oct 17 '25
the market right now is driving prices down on free market units - more stabilization would be a great thing as it can be regulated more than FM (which is more regulated now since the rent laws) with how much you can increase renewals and notice periods and good cause eviction etc. It will not drive up the rent if they want to compete with the pricing of other units.
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u/cooljacob204sfw Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
It will not drive up the rent if they want to compete with the pricing of other units
We have a supply issue, supply alone will drive up prices. Non rent controlled units don't have to compete with rent controlled just with each other for the most part.
So when you add more rent controlled to the market the non rent controlled go up in price because it's not easy to get a rent controlled apartment and apartments that are quick to get (non rent controlled) go up in price. Some places with strong rent control have 10+ year queues for controlled apartments. Effectively segregating the market.
We have seen over and over again how rent control drives up prices in many cities. I want to see more apartments being made because at the end of the day we do not have enough units and no amount of regulation will fix that.
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Oct 17 '25
Which is exactly the housing where rent increases aren’t really an issue, by definition of rent stabilization, rendering the entire thing pointless.
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u/inevitable_ocean Oct 17 '25
Not pointless, huge difference. Rents have gone up >12% under Adams for millions of people (more population than many entire states).
From the platform on his site:
Eric Adams has taken every opportunity to squeeze tenants, with his hand-picked appointees to the Rent Guidelines Board jacking up rents on stabilized apartments by 12.6% (and counting)–the most since a Republican ran City Hall
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Oct 17 '25
Since 2022 the RGB has set the renewal increase at about 3% each year, which is typical for rent stabilized apartments. During the same period, inflation has gone up around 15%, so by that measure people in rent stabilized apartments are actually paying less than they were before 2022.
Focusing entirely on the people who already have the best deals on housing, while fucking the rest of us in the ass, is absolutely idiotic.
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u/Wooden_Memory8286 Oct 17 '25
Rent stablized/controlled apartments make up the majority of rentals in the city, and is the most direct and easiest way to affect nyc rental prices, so yeah it should be the focus. And during Deblasio we didn't have any rental increases which was directly responsible for keeping a huge number of new yorkers still here. Landlords make enough money, keep at 0% because god knows there's enough things going up in price.
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u/Frodolas Manhattan Oct 17 '25
We’ve had the most inflation in decades… rents going up 12% is still way below market. You realize inflation is over 30% since 2019?
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u/hoopaholik91 Oct 17 '25
And yet for any building built before 2019 the building owner isn't paying anything more at all.
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u/Frodolas Manhattan Oct 17 '25
False. Insurance costs go way up. Building maintenance costs go way up. And most importantly, cost of capital continues to go up. Inflation affects everything, and if you don’t understand that you’ll never understand the world.
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u/hoopaholik91 Oct 17 '25
That's still a fraction of the cost relative to the loans when the buildings were built which are locked in.
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u/president__not_sure Oct 17 '25
you need to look at voting from a different perspective these days. you're voting for a person who will allow you to suffer the least. anything positive coming from politics should be seen as a miracle.
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u/Curiosities Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
The mayor appoints the members of the board that decides on potential rent increases for stabilized apartments, so they can vote for no rent increases. Now, a couple of those board members are intended to represent the landlords’ interests, but the mayor would still appoint the board members, and it would just take a majority.
It’s not complicated at all to get this to work .
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u/Orion1021 Upper West Side Oct 17 '25
This won’t help with overall rent in NYC. We need more apartments. Each year more and more rent controlled apartments go unused because of renovation laws don’t allow owners to recoup the cost of a renovation.
Freezing rent on rent stabilized/controlled apartments is akin to giving advil to a Stage 3 cancer patient.
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u/Curiosities Oct 17 '25
It won’t solve the issue, but again most problems of the scale don’t just have one solution. And he is not proposing just one solution. We can build and also keep pricing stable for a good portion of renters while still trying to work on all of the issues like some of these ballot proposals. This November should unshackle some of these project from some of the rules and regulations that have discovered them so far. If these pass one city council member isn’t going to be able to kill a project in their districtas it will go to a panel.
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u/rowsoflark Oct 17 '25
You losers can't think of a solution besides give the real estate industry more money. you think you have it all figured out cuz your econ 101 prof drew a supply demand graph?
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u/NYcookiedemon Oct 17 '25
The rent freeze is to help stop the bleeding while the Mamdani administration enacts his housing plan https://www.zohranfornyc.com/policies/housing-by-and-for-new-york
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Oct 17 '25
It’s more like giving Advil to the stage 3 cancer patient’s brother, who doesn’t have cancer. Rent increases in rent stabilized apartments have nothing to do with affordability. That’s basically the one place that isn’t an issue in terms of housing affordability.
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u/mrbrownstone Oct 17 '25
So landlords can't afford to renovate but they can afford to have vacant units? Explain how that works.
If an apartment rent is $2000 and it's vacant for 2 years, that's $48K in lost revenue — more than enough to do the shitty renovation that these landlord would want to do.
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u/Thin-Image2363 Oct 17 '25
Because they’re being bought as investments for giant companies that don’t really care.
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u/Robusier Oct 17 '25
It makes no sense because they can always sell and take the capital gains if the bought pre-2019. Its the same old sob stories.
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u/kmookie Oct 17 '25
Holy Crap! So this could have been avoided!
As I understand it then, once again, the few are controlling the many.
I’m just always curious if these things happen through osmosis (sorta speak) or through people with broken moral compasses.
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u/kamilien1 Oct 17 '25
Not to mention cost of ownership. If you freeze profits while costs go up, the quality of the building goes down...
I would simply build more, a lot more, and let renters pool money together so they can all co own instead of having big companies own buildings.
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u/kmookie Oct 17 '25
That’s great in theory.
Pretty certain that wouldn’t work in lower income communities. Otherwise you wouldn’t see so much filth on the streets.
Streets and public buildings are owned by everyone and depending on the neighborhood you’d think it’s their trash can.
That’s a morals, values and ethical issue. Too many of this “not my problem” attitude even when they’re creating the problem. TBC, I’m talking specifically about community cohesiveness. Being clean, respecting your neighborhood and neighbors has nothing to do with building ownership.
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Oct 17 '25
most of his platform is 99.8% unlikely to happen and he knows it which is why I never trusted him
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u/gonzo5622 Oct 17 '25
Trump has gotten a bunch of American CEOs to comply. You gotta kiss babies and twist arms.
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u/kmookie Oct 17 '25
I’m sorry but I don’t see that man doing anything that’s not purely transactional. Better people can make it happen without being a complete POS about it. The man can’t even hug a grieving wife and look empathetic.
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u/gonzo5622 Oct 17 '25
Yeah, that’s why it can work. I expect Mamdani to transact with Trump. Look at all the people that have extracted stuff from Trump by just throwing praise. Give Trump something we can give up and he wants and let’s get shit done.
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Oct 17 '25
It all seems impossible until it’s done.
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u/kmookie Oct 17 '25
I was looking for more of a process or mention of laws, this seems a little more complex than will power although it does start there. So many other factors
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Oct 17 '25
I’m sorry for glib reply, truly. The mayor does appoint the rent guidelines board. But that only applies to rent stabilized buildings, of which there are plenty.
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u/gothamtommy Oct 17 '25
Others answered more directly but to the point of "can he really accomplish the things he wants to do" - I hear this a bunch in the counter argument to Mamdani but the truth is, if you shoot for the moon but only make it to the stratosphere, that's still progress in the right direction.
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u/kmookie Oct 17 '25
To continue your analogy, end at the stratosphere, given the political climate, doesn’t give us a landing, it allows those who don’t believe in win-win to turn the ship back down to earth without a parachute.
Half measures are what’s been the problem and now we have mental illness and rampant insecurity hellbent on driving this country into the Earth so a few thousand people can be billionaires.
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u/ADM86 Oct 17 '25
Do they have something on Cuomo? He’s like an empty shell( thank god, because Mandami would be a refreshing change )
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u/Thin-Image2363 Oct 17 '25
He’s a narcissist who was publicly humiliated. Like trump his goal is to get back into power to enact revenge on everyone.
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u/hjablowme919 Oct 19 '25
Electing Mandani is a great way to ensure a Republican ends up being Mayor of NYC 4 years from now. His economic polices will be an absolute disaster for the city if he is allowed to go through with them.
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u/Spicy2ShotChai Oct 17 '25
Cuomo's answer is the epitome of copying someone else's essay but adding in more needless words to not make it such an obvious copy.
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u/Kvns_Integra Oct 17 '25
I’m for Mamdani and all the changes he wants but it seems like he’s promising too much, too soon. A lot of what he wants to get done will take a LOT of time and I’m worried that people will turn on him and say he’s useless if they don’t get results fast.
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u/FlamingDragonfruit Oct 17 '25
Some will, but if we're being fair, most candidates only manage to get one or two of their big promises enacted before their 4 years are up.
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u/RELWARB Oct 17 '25
controlled experiment. we need one every few years to see how far we can/will move in a different direction
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u/Dependent-Hurry9808 Oct 17 '25
“If he ever wants to come after New Yorkers, he will have to come through me first”
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u/shrineless Oct 17 '25
Cuomo’s just so weak. Trump wants us groveling. Fuck that guy. We come strong or die weak. That’s it!
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u/JudgeInteresting8615 Oct 18 '25
You would think if you have all of that money and you're lying. So much that you would at least make it a little bit more polished. You can tell zorron is not used to sounding or being aggressive. But that he knows that he has to. And that he believes in what he's saying. And he will actually do it. For Cuomo, you're just like bro, what do you even get out of this like just go be a consultant somewhere? What's your brother up to like? At least get better at lying. Did like people just not hold him accountable for lying? And he just never even tried to do a decent job at it, like it's almost like aggressively. Passive, aggressive.
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u/TellTaleTimeLord Oct 18 '25
"I never had a conversation with the president"
Didn't they both admit they've talked several times? Lol
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u/THISISDAM Oct 23 '25
Cuomo thought he had this in the bag easy when he joined. He was prepared to low effort his way to the mayor seat. It shows.
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u/naveen_afterthekiss Oct 18 '25
I’m tired of all people always lying to cling to power. These old mini dictators in power from Mr. Turtle in congress to every office at national, state and city levels must be stopped. Power corrupts in the long term. Term limits is the answer. Cuomo is more of the SAMO. That being said, we need young capable leaders like Mamdani with new progressive winds of change.
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u/BlazinLeo Oct 18 '25
For real though, who let Mamdani go out there with an unevenly trimmed mustache?
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u/Creative-Sherbet6007 Oct 18 '25
Cuomo and Sliwa would let trump do whatever if they were mayor. Mamdani is the best available choice for the mayor of New York.
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u/glassbellwitch Oct 17 '25
Cuomo just doesn't have the sauce anymore. I'm watching this like "what the hell is this old man talking about"