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Andrew Cuomo lost the New York City mayoral election so fast I almost missed it. The plan was to be in the room with the die-hard Cuomo-corps when the networks called the race for Zohran Mamdani, to soak up the scene as the last gasp of centrist dreams got flushed out of a midtown hotel ballroom. But by around 9:30 p.m., it was already over. Zohran Mamdani had won , Cuomo had lost, and I was stuck on West 73 rd Street in the back room of a neighborhood Italian restaurant listening to the life story of a woman named Rachel who was incredibly mad at her upstairs neighbor.

The big story today is Mamdani’s win, one of the biggest political upsets in decades and

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