Lindsey Boylan is kicking off her special election campaign for New York City Council Monday, centering her opposition to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and her support for Mayor Zohran Mamdani.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2021, I stood up and called out Andrew Cuomo for sexually harassing me. His cronies attacked me, but more victims came forward and we took him down,\u201d Boylan says in a launch video<\/a> shared with City & State before its release.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd last year, when Cuomo tried to impose himself on the city, I stood up again and worked tirelessly to elect Zohran Mamdani as our new mayor,\u201d Boylan continues, over photos of her with Mamdani.<\/p>\n Boylan was running for Manhattan borough president in 2020 when she accused Cuomo<\/a> of sexually harassing her years prior when she worked for him as an economic development aide. Cuomo denied harassing her, but her organizing was a significant factor leading to his resignation.<\/p>\n Boylan is now a member<\/a> of the Democratic Socialists of America, but is not expected to earn the group\u2019s formal support and is not launching with Mamdani\u2019s endorsement.<\/p>\n After Erik Bottcher was elected to the state Senate, Mamdani called an April 28 special election<\/a> to fill his seat on the west side of Manhattan \u2013 but had to amend the proclamation<\/a> after screwing up a date, City & State reported. Other candidates include Jamin Enquist, Layla Law-Gisiko, Leslie Boghosian Murphy and ex-Bottcher aide Carl Wilson, who\u2019s running with the former member\u2019s endorsement.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lindsey Boylan is kicking off her special election campaign for New York City Council Monday, centering her opposition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7160,80,3066,75,9,24,1057,55,54,56,18213,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-127496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-2026-new-york-state-elections","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-heard-around-town","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-council","15":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-city-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-special-election","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}