While the rhetoric in the city’s mayoral race has become more heated as November draws closer, things took an even more personal turn this week. On Friday, Andrew Cuomo slammed Zohran Mamdani for living in a rent-stabilized apartment, invoking both his wife and parents and suggesting his choice to remain in that apartment is causing someone else to be homeless.

“Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman @ZohranKMamdani are occupying her rent controlled apartment,” Cuomo said in the lengthy post.

The former governor claimed the assemblymember “grew up rich,” an apparent reference to his parents, a film director and a Columbia University professor, and said that Mamdani went on to marry “an even wealthie

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