{"id":74851,"date":"2025-12-18T21:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74851\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:35:09","slug":"staten-island-plots-to-secede-when-mamdani-becomes-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74851\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island Plots To Secede When Mamdani Becomes Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"685\" height=\"510\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/17660925959876.jpg\" alt=\"Staten Island NY City Vector Road Map Blue Horizontal\" class=\"wp-image-2961894\"  \/>Source: FrankRamspott \/ Getty<\/p>\n<p>The<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/12\/17\/mamdani-nyc-staten-island-republicans-secession\/87340414007\/?tbref=hp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> stunning<\/a> win by Zohran Mamdani to become New York City\u2019s next mayor has reignited some Republican politicians on Staten Island to call for the borough to secede from the rest of the city. And they\u2019re tapping into decades of feeling slighted by the rest of the city as fuel for their movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only going to get louder,\u201d says Staten Island Borough President of the growing sentiment. He points to the majority of the borough not voting for Mamdani, who is a Democratic Socialist. Former <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopwired.com\/2804277\/mamdani-and-cuomo-spar-over-affordable-housing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Governor Andrew Cuomo<\/a>, who ran as an independent, won 55% of the vote in Staten Island as opposed to Mamdani, who got 23% of the vote. Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa won 21%.<\/p>\n<p>State Assemblyman Sam Pirozzolo held a rally last month where attendees signed a \u201cStaten Island Independence Declaration.\u201d In his view, Mamdani\u2019s win means the borough\u2019s importance could be limited. \u201cWe are at war because the city seems to have values that we disagree with,\u201d he said. \u201cSome of the policies that fit in Manhattan don\u2019t fit in Staten Island, and what they do in Queens and Brooklyn are what we don\u2019t want to have here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Secession has been discussed in Staten Island before. The borough is predominately white, and is New York City\u2019s least populous borough while having the second-highest median income behind Manhattan. The watershed moment was in 1993, when 63% of residents voted to leave in a non-binding referendum. The shock led then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani to make the Staten Island Ferry free, and to shut down the Fresh Kills Landfill to appease residents.<\/p>\n<p>But economic questions, as well as proper political representation, could tamper the drive to secede. Experts point out that Staten Island doesn\u2019t have a strong economic base to be independent. City Council member Frank Morano is pushing for a full economic study before any referendum is created. \u201cI\u2019m all for democracy, but what I\u2019d like is democracy with data,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: FrankRamspott \/ Getty The stunning win by Zohran Mamdani to become New York City\u2019s next mayor has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-74851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news","14":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74851","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=74851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}