{"id":29164,"date":"2025-11-05T04:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/29164\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T04:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:18:15","slug":"manhattan-bp-mark-levine-wins-nyc-comptroller-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/29164\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan BP Mark Levine wins NYC comptroller race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2013 Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine has won the New York City comptroller election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Levine defeated Republican candidate Peter Kefalas and independent candidate Ismael Malave Perez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/election-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here for election results;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Click here for election results <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He will assume the office left vacant by Brad Lander, who retired to run for mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Levine has been vocal about the need for a rent freeze, acknowledging that both tenants and landlords are struggling in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition to affordable housing, Levine campaigned on the promise to make communities safer by addressing quality-of-life problems and strengthening communities by getting work authorizations for immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2013 Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine has won the New York City comptroller election. Levine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[8069,10122,75,18081,84,83,18079,9,24,18080,63,18082,9803],"class_list":{"0":"post-29164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-brad-lander","9":"tag-independent-candidate","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-borough-president","12":"tag-manhattan-headlines","13":"tag-manhattan-news","14":"tag-mark-levine","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-city-comptroller","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-peter-kefalas","20":"tag-republican-candidate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29164","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=29164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}