ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul will push to restrict protests near houses of worship in the upcoming state budget negotiations – setting up a possible policy clash with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, The Post has learned.

A governor’s office source said establishing buffer zones between religious sanctuaries and demonstrations – a proposal gaining steam in the wake of an anti-Israel mob descending on a Manhattan synagogue last month – will be part of her agenda when lawmakers return to Albany next month.

Assemblyman Micah Lasher (D-Manhattan) and State Sen. Sam Sutton (D-Brooklyn) have introduced state legislation that would ban demonstrations within 25-feet of the entrances and parking lots to houses of worship and abortion clinics.

Protestors mobbed the Park East Synagogue in a shocking sc

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