Just after 9 p.m. Tuesday, the line to get into Zohran Mamdani’s election watch party stretched all the way down Flatbush Avenue outside the Brooklyn Paramount. The impatient crowd was a Where’s Waldo? of every New York archetype: 30-something men in faux military clothing filming skits for TikTok, Brooklyn moms with totes dangling off their shoulders looking excited just to be there, a group wearing both traditional Hasidic garb and “Palestine” scarves. One guy walked up and down the street handing out pamphlets to those waiting and provoking them to “talk about Trump.”

Celebrity supporters including Emily Ratajkowski, Morgan Spector, and Ramy Youssef floated around the crowd and clumped near the entrances, looking for a pliable staffer to escort them inside the venue. Unfortunately

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