Democratic state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is expected to endorse Zohran Mamdani for mayor, sources confirmed to NY1.

Although Heastie was conspicuously absent from a Bronx County Democratic Party endorsement rally for Mamdani earlier this month, he’s expected to lend his support as soon as Wednesday.

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Democratic state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is expected to endorse Zohran Mamdani for mayor, sources confirmed to NY1

The powerful Bronx speaker is also Mamdani’s boss in the state Assembly, as the Democratic mayoral nominee occupies just one seat out of the 150-member chamber

But the pair have had disagreements, specifically on Mamdani’s free bus pilot program that found life in the 2023 state budget agreements — but was not renewed after its sunset in 2024,

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