{"id":219701,"date":"2026-05-04T20:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219701\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:29:09","slug":"listen-dont-bet-against-mamdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219701\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Don\u2019t Bet Against Mamdani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zohran Mamdani\u2019s first political endorsement since becoming mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2026\/04\/28\/carl-wilson-defeats-mamdanis-choice-in-council-special-election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">predictably didn\u2019t pan out<\/a>, but Lindsey Boylan wasn\u2019t the candidate he\u2019s betting his political capital on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FAQ NYC hosts discuss all that and much more, including why bringiing casinos to New York is such a terrible idea, what\u2019s so good about bodega cats and bad about restaurant dogs, and much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani\u2019s first political endorsement since becoming mayor predictably didn\u2019t pan out, but Lindsey Boylan wasn\u2019t the candidate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-219701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219701","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=219701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}