How do you do, fellow Knicks fans?
Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani donned crisp new Knicks merch and tried to act like an average hoops fan in the “nosebleed” seats at Madison Square Garden Sunday — a transparent retort to Andrew Cuomo’s photo-op last month from high-end courtside seats.
Mamdani was joined by a podcaster and the New York Times, which called the appearance “low-key” even as the candidate’s social media posts went viral.
Mamdani has admitted he’s into soccer and cricket, not hoops, and hadn’t posted about the hometown Knicks until he launched his mayoral campaign earlier this year.
According to some Empire State pols and pundits, he’s not fooling anyone.
“Mamdani’s polar bear plunge was a far more effective populist stunt than taking in a Knicks’ game — even from

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