After the New York City mayoral race was called for Zohran Mamdani the night of November 4, the mothers of the Upper East Side began to panic. “Shocked,” one Facebook user wrote anonymously in the Moms of the Upper East Side (MUES) group, which has 35,000 members. “With all my love for NYC I can’t believe 50% +- of the city voted for this joker. Wondering who’s actually leaving? To where, Florida?” Residents of the neighborhood synonymous with Gilded Age mansions and tony private schools had voted for Andrew Cuomo , a staunch supporter of Israel who campaigned on a tough-on-crime agenda, by a 24-point margin. The more-than-300 comments responding to that anonymous post are full of mothers looking for property in New Jersey or Florida, predicting that Mamdani’s promise to make buses fre

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