{"id":259259,"date":"2026-06-08T15:23:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259259\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:23:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:23:42","slug":"mamdanis-weekend-in-queens-included-knicks-watch-parties-and-queens-pride-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259259\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani\u2019s weekend in Queens included Knicks watch parties and Queens Pride \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined fans in Astoria<\/a> sports bar Rivercrest<\/a> Friday night to watch as the New York Knicks secured a narrow victory against the San Antonio Spurs to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n

Mamdani joined state Sen. Mike Gianaris, who is retiring at the end of the year, and Aber Kawas, a candidate to replace Gianaris in the 12th Senate District, at the Ditmars Boulevard bar for the 105-104 victory, posing with fans throughout the game.<\/p>\n

The mayor was back in Queens Sunday, marching alongside several candidates he has endorsed for the state Legislature at Queens Pride<\/a> in Jackson Heights.<\/p>\n

Mamdani marched alongside several members of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, including Kawas; Samantha Kattan, who is running to succeed Assembly Member Claire Valdez in the 37th District; David Orkin, who is running to primary Jenifer Rajkumar in the 38th; and Diana Moreno, who replaced Mamdani in the 36th District after winning a special election earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

The mayor also marched alongside Brian Romero, a candidate he has endorsed in the 34th Assembly District who has not been endorsed by the DSA.\n<\/p>\n

Mamdani also marched alongside Assembly Member Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas, who he has not endorsed as she bids to primary State Sen. Jessica Ramos in the 13th Senate District.\n<\/p>\n

Mamdani did, however, praise both Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas and Romero for \u201calways being there when everyone needs them.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Valdez, who is running to succeed U.S. Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez in NY-7, was also present at Queens Pride before Mamdani joined her for a canvassing event in Greenpoint later on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n

Moreno, meanwhile, described Queens Pride as a \u201cbeautiful and joyful\u201d event but said it remained critical to stand with the trans community, who faced \u201cunemployment, homelessness and discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreno and Kawas also noted that Queens Pride was founded in 1993 in response to the murder of Julio Rivera in Jackson Heights.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the first Pride parade in the city outside of Manhattan, and still the largest. I\u2019m proud to call Queens my home and I\u2019ll always fight to keep it a place where everyone belongs,\u201d Kawas said on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined fans in Astoria sports bar Rivercrest Friday night to watch as the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[46417,33947,40975,80693,29438,2495,10663,1445,3947,37011,9,24,63,122,124,123,100776,15695,57477,82],"class_list":["post-259259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-aber-kawas","tag-assembly-member-jessica-gonzu00e1lez-rojas","tag-brian-romero","tag-david-orkin","tag-diana-moreno","tag-dsa","tag-knicks","tag-mamdani","tag-mike-gianaris","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-queens-pride","tag-rivercrest","tag-samantha-kattan","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259259","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=259259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}