Given that my social media feeds admittedly overindex film aficionados and left-leaning New Yorkers, perhaps it’s not surprising that all anybody seemed to be talking about yesterday afternoon was the video in which Andrew Cuomo announced that,

Cuomo makes an independent bid for NYC mayor despite primary defeat and proposes rivals drop out to prevent Mamdani's victory.

In phone calls since his double-digit loss to democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, Cuomo has insisted there’s a path forward in a five-candidate general election field and referenced public polling that showed him neck-and-neck with the state lawmaker.

Some leaders across the city, including former Governor David Paterson, are calling for unity to defeat Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Paterson held a press conference Monday with grocery store CEO and radio station owner John Catsimatidis,

Mamdani’s mayoral campaign shows a successful playbook for the left — but years of history united NYC progressives against Andrew Cuomo.

Or that the man who just might thwart Andrew Cuomo’s improbable comeback is a democratic socialist with a relatively meager political resume? These unexpected developments — not to mention the looming shadow of President Donald Trump’s declared war on his hometown — have captivated the nation as much as it has the city itself.