Zohran Mamdani<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"people](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cuomo-lloyd-mitchell-102625_3d7f85.jpg\" "\\"Cuomo")
Cuomo attended a rally in Kew Gardens, Queens, in support of Israel and Jewish New Yorkers.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an important election,\u201d the candidate said. \u201cFirst, the city itself. There is work that we need to do. There is an affordability crisis, and the real answer is to build more affordable housing, and I\u2019m going to build 500,000 additional units. We need more public safety, and we have to hire 5,000 more police and put 1,500 in the subways. We have to send a different signal to business, and we have to say to the businesses, \u2018We want you to stay here.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Cuomo said Mamdani is not equipped to lead the city, citing a lack of experience in city government \u2014 something he passionately reiterated during the second mayoral debate on Oct. 22.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no on-the-job training for mayor,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cGod forbid there\u2019s a crisis, there\u2019s a hurricane, there\u2019s a flood, a terrorist attack. You need a mayor who knows and has the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruben Davidoff attended the event in support of Cuomo. A Bukharian Jew who escaped the Soviet Union 37 years ago, he said his vote will be for the former governor, and not Mamdani, who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did we come to this country? Why did we run away from the Soviet Union? The Soviet Union was a socialist country. It does not work,\u201d he told the crowd. \u201cWe had over 2 million people in the Soviet Union, most of them fled, fled from oppression, flee, whatever other things we\u2019ve been oppressed. If we become a socialist country or socialist city, only a few people up top would be getting basically the best out of the best. Everybody else will suffer. Do not vote for Mamdani.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rally took place just one day after early voting began in NYC and in the middle of a heated mayoral race in which frontrunner Mamdani has often been criticized for his statements made about Israel and the war in Gaza.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The crowd passionately chanted various messages in support of Israel, including, \u201cWe will not be erased\u201d and \u201cWe will stand for our Jewish community.\u201d\u00a0
\n![\"man](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cuomo-lloyd-mitchell-102625.jpg\" "\\"Cuomo")
NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo in Queens.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell\n<\/p>\n
Paul Brody, M.D., who attended the rally, said Cuomo will \u201cdo great\u201d as mayor of NYC.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s the most prepared person for the job,\u201d the doctor said. \u201cThe fact that he was the governor for the state, so therefore, he knows about New York City, which is integral, the most integral part of the whole state, from certain aspects. Certainly, we don\u2019t want to get any other parts of the state upset by that statement. He just has the experience, and he\u2019s been around.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roman, who came from Brooklyn to attend the event, said Cuomo has a resume that makes him fit to lead the city.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s done everything from helping New York at the local level with homelessness. Andrew has been in D.C. with [Housing and Urban Development],\u201d the Cuomo supporter said. \u201cSo he\u2019s done everything that it comes to from housing and affordability, and these days, quality-of-life really takes everything from affordability straight through quality-of-life. So I trust Andrew much more on crime than some of Mamdani\u2019s policies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Cuomo attends a rally in Kew Gardens, Queens. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[80,128,12213,9,24,63,5148,87,122,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-17576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-andrew-cuomo","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-jewish-communities-in-nyc","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-mayoral-race","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","19":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17576","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=17576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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