Yonkers’ mayor is pitching businesses fearing apocalypse-level conditions under a Zohran Mamdani mayoralty – saying they should consider crossing the border from the boroughs into the burbs before leaving the state.
“I don’t want to be the last one at the train stop sitting saying ‘hey, why did you pass us up? You could’ve come here.'” Mayor Mike Spano told The Post. “So I’m going to be upfront and open, and basically send the message to New York that I like billionaires.
“I like billionaires, I like the average Joe, and I’d like you to come to and try Yonkers. If you’re going to leave, come here,” he added.
Spano, a former state lawmaker and ex-Republican, calls himself a “radical moderate” Democrat and said that “when New York City sneezes, we get the cold.” He’s now making his pitc

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