New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has had a busy year. He ran for mayor, forged the city’s first true cross-endorsement with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, was arrested escorting immigrants from court hearings at 26 Federal Plaza and now he’s weighing a run for Congress. And that’s to say nothing of his day job as New York City’s chief financial officer, which will come to an end later this month.

As comptroller, he has spent the past four years managing the city’s immense pension funds, issuing audits, operating as an independent check on the Adams administration – and more recently, attempting to safeguard the city’s finances from an increasingly hostile presidential administration.

City & State caught up with Lander to chat about his relationship with Mamdani, how he has balanced h

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