{"id":222452,"date":"2026-05-06T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222452\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:03:07","slug":"vast-majority-of-nyc-voters-think-everything-seems-to-be-in-the-dumper-when-it-comes-to-affordability-and-other-key-issues-new-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222452\/","title":{"rendered":"Vast majority of NYC voters think \u2018everything seems to be in the dumper\u2019 when it comes to affordability and other key issues, new poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

While New York City voters remained largely lukewarm\u00a0toward their elected officials, a new poll released this week by the Siena Research Institute<\/a> showed that a majority of NYC voters in the region shared the sentiment that the country was headed in the wrong direction on a number of\u00a0issues.<\/p>\n

On questions regarding, affordability, integrating Artificial Intelligence into daily life, the United States\u2019 image on the world stage, immigration enforcement and protecting constitutional rights, 60% or more of voters in the Big Apple<\/a> responded that the nation was headed in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n

\u200aGeorge Arzt, political consultant and former press secretary to Mayor Ed Koch, told amNewYork he wasn\u2019t too surprised by the outcome, noting that when New Yorkers are displeased, they are rarely shy about it.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u200aYou have to understand that New Yorkers are very keen on giving straight answers, and most of the time, they are quite fussy about their answers,\u201d Arzt said. \u201cSo given that, you would have to say that the poll is affected by the crisis that the nation is in abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that international conflict and it\u2019s ripple effect on the economy and the price of oil could be impacting public opinion closer to home.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIran, the stock market, everything seems to be in the dumper, and that affects local politics,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n

However, NYC voters\u2019 outlook for the state was a little better, with questions about the state\u2019s handling of K-12 education, improving state transportation infrastructure and safeguarding the environment just managing to eke out a majority of favorable responses among NYC area voters.<\/p>\n

Still, in areas like NYS\u2019s efforts to reduce crime, create more affordable housing and the state\u2019s general fiscal condition, voters in the five boroughs said the state was headed in the wrong direction with upwards of 50% of respondents sharing unfavorable responses with Siena.<\/p>\n

Responses from NYC voters were not shown by party affiliation, but statewide responses\u2014of which voters in the NYC region made up 40%\u2014 tended to split along party lines with Democrats viewing the Democratic-led state outlook more favorably and Republicans viewing the Trump-led national outlook more favorably.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u200aDon\u2019t forget we\u2019re a blue city and the administration is not terribly popular with New Yorkers,\u201d Arzt said.\n<\/p>\n

The one notable bipartisan overlap was respondents\u2019 sentiments on housing and the affordability crisis, Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said in an analysis of the latest numbers.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cEven Democrats agree with Republicans and independents that the state is headed in the wrong direction on housing and cost of living,\u201d Greenberg said.\n<\/p>\n

With midterms approaching, none of the incumbents running for reelection<\/a> received a ringing endorsement from poll respondents, either statewide or in the NYC region. That includes Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is running for re-election this November. Though her favorability rating dipped by 8 points, the Siena poll found that her projected lead on Bruce Blakeman, the Republican gubernatorial nominee and Nassau County executive, grew by 3 points, with 49% of those polled favoring Hochul and 33% backing Blakeman.<\/p>\n

In Siena pollster\u2019s analysis of the latest data, Greenberg questioned whether the lackluster public opinion stemmed from the state budget\u2014now over a month late. The ninth extension runs out Wednesday, and legislators will either need to come to an agreement or pass a tenth extender.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While New York City voters remained largely lukewarm\u00a0toward their elected officials, a new poll released this week by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13884,1586,8012,153,14670,9,17566,18571,56,63,65,64,30112],"class_list":["post-222452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-2026-midterms","tag-affordability","tag-cost-of-living","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-state-assembly","tag-new-york-state-senate","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-siena-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222452","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=222452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}