Cuomo, Mamdani rally forces in Queens as mayoral race enters final days

With the city’s mayoral election racing into the home stretch, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo both held rallies in Queens to make their final pitches to voters on a picture-perfect fall Sunday.

Cuomo, a former New York governor, held a “rally to support the Jewish state of Israel” in Kew Gardens, appealing to the neighborhood’s large Jewish community. About 200 people attended.

Cuomo declared his message to the crowd is crystal — that he stands with the Jewish people of New York and that Mamdani, if elected, will present a threat to Jewish New Yorkers.

“We fundamentally resent the idea that a mayor of New York would be a divisive force. What [Mamdani] has done, the offense he has shown to the Jewish community, he should be ashamed of himself,”