Gov. Kathy Hochul said New York is a “high state of alert” after the U.S.-Israel bombings of Iran.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered more law enforcement protection to sensitive sites

Hochul said New York is in a “high state of alert”

House Democrats are pushing a war powers resolution 

“There could be retaliation from these efforts and not just on the fields of Iran and the Middle East,” Hochul said. “We are a vulnerable state. We have a very vulnerable target in New York City.”

As conflict erupts overseas, sensitive locations in New York got extra police protection — such as houses of worship and diplomatic facilities.

During her remarks Monday, Hochul criticized the Islamic Republic’s regime for sponsoring terrorism, threats to American allies and repression of its people.

“No one is ever going to defend that regime — full stop,” she said. “But the scale of what is happening now demands answers.”

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Saturday saved his condemnations for the Trump administration.

“Today’s’ military strikes by the United States and Israel mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal act of war of aggression,” he said.

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, the only GOP House member in the city, gave unqualified support to the Trump administration.

“The United States has taken decisive and courageous action against Iran to defend our citizens, interests and partners after the leading state sponsor of terrorism would not negotiate in good faith or commit to diplomacy over nuclear capabilities,” she wrote.

For House Democrats, the specter of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan looms over the Trump administration.

“We saw people celebrating at the fall of Saddam Hussein at the time, and then what was the plan thereafter? And it went into complete chaos,” Rep. Gregory Meeks, a Queens Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, told NY1. “That’s why you want to know what the plan is afterwards.”

Meanwhile, Rep. Dan Goldman, who represents Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, called for a vote on a war powers resolution.

“We cannot get into another forever war that costs trillions of dollars that should be going to the American people and that has no end in sight,” he said.