A MetroCard-yellow "ZOHRAN FOR NEW YORK CITY" button was pinned to Douglas Wiener's hoodie, the one from his childhood summer camp in Hauppauge.

It was Sunday night, and Wiener, 27, of Smithtown, stood waiting for the Long Island Rail Road. He had just left a rally in Forest Hills, Queens, where Brooklyn-born Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani amped up over 10,000 roaring supporters in the waning days of the New York City mayoral race.

Even though Wiener is a Long Islander and can't vote in the race, he has friends in the city, and he hopes Mamdani fever spreads beyond the five boroughs. Wiener likes Mamdani’s pledges to freeze roughly 1 million apartment rents and make the city more affordable. And the crowd’s politics bore

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