Will he or won’t he? That was the question leading up to the Real Estate Board of New York’s annual gala on Thursday.  The trade group invited Mayor Zohran Mamdani to the event, but the new mayor didn’t show. This wasn’t terribly surprising, given that last year the mayor — then an Assembly member — protested outside the gala, and indicated this week that he had no plans to attend this year’s party at the Waldorf Astoria New York.  Then again, mayors have turned up or canceled at the last minute in previous years, left before the dinner to meet […]

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