A new wave of politicians is coming to Albany. The fight to represent New York in the state Senate and Assembly served as a fraught battleground of left-leaning candidates facing off against incumbents. Their wins — particularly those endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America (as well as the Working Families Party) — stand to have an outsized impact on influencing city and state policy on the real estate industry and beyond.  While many candidates won by touting progressive DSA/WFP-backed bona fides, a few winners didn’t fit neatly into that mold and one more establishment incumbent […]

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