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Mayor Zohran Mamdani frequently uses lotteries, whether for World Cup tickets or 2-K placement, as a democratic tool. | Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office STEP RIGHT UP: During his first months in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani touted a lot of lottos. There was a daycare lottery, a lottery for World Cup tickets, a lottery for prime spots to see the July 4th fireworks, a lottery for free swim classes and a lottery to see the NBA champion Knicks at City Hall. This isn’t a chance occurrence.
Penn Station overhaul may finally be within reach. But Trump's influence is making Dems uneasy.
Democrats want the federal government to pay the entire cost and many are worried the president might be looking to name the station after himself. People prepare to enter Penn Station. | Michael M.
Penn Station overhaul may finally be within reach. But Trump’s influence is making Dems uneasy.
NEW YORK — During a recent meeting with the team President Donald Trump picked to remake Penn Station, the powerful head of New York's Senate Finance Committee started to think about "Say Yes To The Dress." A cardinal rule on the reality TV show — about a Manhattan bridal shop — is to never allow a bride to try on a dress she can't afford. In the meeting, Sen.
Retail gas stations touted by Trump racked up penalties in New Jersey
The operator behind at least six of the mysterious Freedom Fuel discount gas stations had faced a stream of nearly 200 penalties in New Jersey before President Donald Trump touted the network last month, according to state records POLITICO reviewed.
Democratic discontent with Mamdani mounts in New York City’s outer boroughs
4 hours ago The ownership of every property in New York City is public and searchable through a funky website that takes a minute to master. Last week, when a slice of that data set — some 900,000 names and addresses — was published in another easy-to-search form, the internet suddenly took notice. “The worst …
Democratic discontent with Mamdani mounts in New York City’s outer boroughs
NEW YORK — When Queens Borough President Donovan Richards accused the Democratic Socialists of America of perpetuating "white supremacy" earlier this month, it marked a rare instance of a well-known local Democrat taking direct, withering aim at the group that propelled Mayor Zohran Mamdani into City Hall. Since Mamdani's ascension there, local elected Democrats have been hard pressed to publicly blast him and his hard-left base.
Schumer, Trump admin spar over Penn Station renaming
TRUMP'S EDIFICE COMPLEX: The nation's top transportation official floated the idea of renaming Penn Station – possibly the first step toward putting President Donald Trump's name atop America's busiest rail hub. “Direct Amtrak to rename New York Penn Station,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a wish list he sent to lawmakers considering a major new transportation funding bill. What he didn't say is what name he believes Amtrak should attach to the station.
Will New York, New Jersey do sports together ever again?
The World Cup was a showcase for the region. It also revealed the challenges of a partnership built on necessity. The World Cup final wrapped up today in the portmandu place FIFA calls New York New Jersey. The two states, which shared responsibilities to host eight matches and the final, did so through an uneasy alliance . There were tit-for-tats over which state should get first billing on signs outside the stadium . Their two governors – both Democrats – released dueling transportation plans.
NJ Transit achieves its World Cup goooal!
After a cursed 2014 Super Bowl, the underdog transit agency kept the trains (and buses) running on time for the world's biggest sports event. There was another World Cup victory on Sunday — for one of the nation's largest transit agencies. New Jersey Transit, which became infamous for disarray outside MetLife Stadium following the 2014 Super Bowl, carried soccer fans on its buses and trains there and back eight times since the World Cup began — without major incident.
New York, New Jersey to examine whether World Cup funds were money well spent
The host committee released a study last summer predicting $3.3 billion in economic impact across New York and New Jersey. New York and New Jersey planned to spend roughly a half billion dollars hosting eight World Cup matches, including today's final. But once it's over, lawmakers in both states want to know if they got their money's worth. In New York City, Councilmember Virginia Maloney, who leads the chamber's committee on economic development, is going to lead that examination.
The ‘hopeless, bad people’ just won Donald Trump's World Cup
3 hours ago If the president gets his way, new rules would lower the bar for building monuments in Washington. Building a new monument in Washington, D.C., is supposed to take time—a slow procedural grind of plans drafted, designs revised, studies conducted, and preservationists, historians, tribes, and …
The ‘hopeless, bad people’ just won Donald Trump's World Cup
Turns out, revenge is a dish best served on a warm Sunday afternoon in a New Jersey swamp. President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term in office berating Spain over its anemic military spending and refusal to allow American forces to use Spanish bases for bombing missions in Iran. Earlier this month, Trump branded the country "hopeless," derided the Spanish as "bad people" and briefly threatened to cut off all trade in goods with Madrid.
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“A mini-United Nations mixed with the Oscars” The head of New York New Jersey's host committee on what he's going to tell FIFA in their post-tournament debrief. Long before the first World Cup match was played this year at MetLife Stadium, the head of the New York New Jersey host committee, Alex Lasry, was among the organizers with something to prove: That the U.S. should not have to wait another three decades to host the next one.
Mamdani's World Cup diplomat
“Soccer is a world game, and the World Cup is a tournament that brings everyone together,” Maya Handa said. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been using weeks of World Cup festivities to welcome diplomats and soccer officials from around the world, hosting a mix of watch parties, pickup games at his official residence and more traditional meetings and press conferences. During his first weeks in office, Mamdani tapped his former campaign manager, Maya Handa, to be the city's World Cup Czar.
E&E News: Sherrill administration limits stakeholder group in New Jersey flood rule fight
Acting DEP Commissioner Ed Potosnak said nine groups are being invited to weekly working group meetings to offer different perspectives to shape new coastal development rules. CLIMATEWIRE | New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection is holding different sets of meetings for stakeholders trying to shape new coastal development rules.
NYC Council gallops to ban city's horse carriage industry
YEAR OF THE HORSE: The New York City Council appears closer than ever to passing legislation that would ban the Big Apple's horse carriage industry — but two significant obstacles remain on the horizon. The biggest step toward enacting a ban came Tuesday evening, when Council Speaker Julie Menin announced she's backing the bill that would make horse-drawn carriages illegal in the city starting June 2028.
Mikie Sherrill confronts FIFA in New Jersey turf battle
The New Jersey governor and soccer's governing body have clashed about prices and costs. Now they're fighting over green. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill's office says the Garden State should get a cut of the MetLife Stadium grass FIFA plans to sell to soccer fans. Soccer's global governing body, a Zurich-based nonprofit, is plotting to charge $450 for sod from this weekend's World Cup final. But like a lot of the costs for hosting the World Cup, the pitch was subsidized by local hosts.
New York girds for a weekend of Taylor Swift, salutes and soccer
It will be loud, crowded and hot. NEW YORK — New York City has begun one of the busiest weekends in its history — Taylor Swift's wedding celebration at Madison Square Garden today, a series of air, land and water celebrations for America's 250th birthday tomorrow and a World Cup match in northern New Jersey on Sunday.
New York's hot, loud, busy weekend
SO HOT, SO LOUD: New York City is readying for one of the busiest weekends in its history — Taylor Swift's wedding celebration at Madison Square Garden on Friday; a series of air, land and water celebrations for America's 250th birthday Saturday; and a World Cup match across the river in New Jersey on Sunday.
Mamdani's howler
NEW YORK â Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has spent much of the last month displaying his intense soccer fandom, just said during a press conference on security plans for a busy July Fourth weekend that France and Norway would be playing. He corrected himself after Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said something to him in an aside: In fact it will be Brazil and Norway facing off at the Meadowlands on Sunday. France played Sweden there yesterday and Norway in Boston last Friday.
The World Cup's final boss
World Cup planners have long expected President Donald Trump will come to one or more matches. Now we know, thanks to FIFA head Gianni Infantino, that Trump will be at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey to hand out the gold trophy after the final match concludes. The July 19 event will be one more test of the regionâs security and transportation apparatus, one that is in the middle of a long summer, including Trumpâs early trip to New York earlier that month for a parade of warships.
World Cup 2026
It's getting real in a New Jersey parking lot Forget Germany-Netherlands or Brazil-Argentina. The cup's most ferocious rivalry is divided by the Hudson River. EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey — Before the World Cup began, New York and New Jersey unveiled competing transportation plans. After several matches, $20 shuttle buses subsidized by New York keep selling out, but $98 New Jersey Transit train trips don't.
Norway is pillaging hearts and minds
Norwayâs fans became famous around New York City for plopping down wherever they are and pretending to row like Vikings â in Times Square, in rain-drenched parking lots before matches and inside MetLife Stadium so vigorously the stadium swayed. Today they bring the "Viking row" to Boston for Norway's heavyweight clash with France.
Norway is pillaging hearts and minds
The Viking Army is conquering America. Their ambassador wants you to know there's a message behind the mayhem. Norway's fans became famous around New York City for plopping down wherever they are and pretending to row like Vikings — in Times Square, in rain-drenched parking lots before matches and inside MetLife Stadium so vigorously the stadium swayed. Today they bring the “Viking row” to Boston for Norway's heavyweight clash with France.
Judges wrestle with Rep. LaMonica McIver's claims of immunity and being targeted by Trump administration
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The judges — one Trump appointee and two Democratic appointees — seemed skeptical of whether McIver is shielded from the charges by the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause, which grants members of Congress a form of immunity that is mostly impenetrable in investigations relating to the official duties of lawmakers. Judge Stephanos Bibas, who was nominated by President Donald Trump in 2017, asked if a lawmaker would be protected if they groped a girl inside an immigration detention facility.
‘Don't count on me to say bad words'
France's sports minister on Kylian Mbappé's political views, what scares her about snow and why she's not apologizing for PSG. The French minister for sports, Marina Ferrari, was in New York City to support her national team, which will play its second match tomorrow against Iraq.
Democrats say they were denied access to Delaney Hall detainees
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Democrats say they were denied access to Delaney Hall detainees
Democrats say they were denied access to Delaney Hall detainees NEWARK, New Jersey — A half dozen House Democrats said they were denied access to detainees while conducting an oversight visit to Delaney Hall on Wednesday. The visit to the controversial, privately run, 1,000-bed New Jersey immigration detention facility coincided with a shadow hearing led by Department of Homeland Security Committee ranking member Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). Thompson and fellow Democrats, including New Jersey Reps.
Democrats say they were denied access to Delaney Hall detainees
The immigration facility in New Jersey has been the scene of chaotic protests over conditions in recent weeks.
The countless control rooms running the World Cup in New York and New Jersey
And just wait till the July 4 weekend ... EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey — During the World Cup, FIFA officials, law enforcement agencies and transit planners across New York and New Jersey will be keeping an eye on things from a constellation of command centers and control rooms.
Top Democrats watch Brazil-Morocco match – together
Sherrill, Hochul and Mamdani sat together to take in the action. After months of planning, some griping and a few tit-for-tats, the three top Democrats from New York and New Jersey showed up to watch the World Cup — together. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani are all attending this evening's Brazil–Morocco match. The TV broadcast captured the two New Yorkers sitting together. Sherrill also joined them during the match.
What FIFA calls ‘New York New Jersey'
Cue the border-state rivalry. Everybody wants the bragging rights. Where is the World Cup being played again? In the northeastern United States, eight World Cup games, including the final, will be played in what FIFA calls “New York New Jersey.” But elected leaders from this portmanteau place are jostling over where exactly it is. The state of New Jersey and New York City bid for and won the right to be a host city, but New York state officials have become increasingly involved.
FIFA's encounter with North America's messy democracy
Gianni Infantino is the new century's unlikely Alexis de Tocqueville. FIFA President Gianni Infantino is working on his third World Cup, which spreads across North America this weekend. His first tournaments were held in autocratic countries with governments willing to splash cash and use the games to sportswash their tarnished image on the global stage.
How I failed to make it to my first World Cup match
A wall of thunderstorms kiboshed a POLITICO reporter's assignment to attend Canada vs. Bosnia. I've been reporting on the obstacles ticketholders will have navigating America's balkanized public transit system. But on the way to my first ever FIFA World Cup match in Toronto, extreme weather tripped me up as I tried to leave New York City on Thursday night.
Mundial 2026 za pasem. W tle pożary, awarie i plan ratunkowy
Seria niedawnych pożarów i problemów z instalacją elektryczną na stacji Penn Station w Nowym Jorku sprawiła, że osoby odpowiedzialne za transport publiczny w regionie zaczęły poważnie obawiać się o sprawne funkcjonowanie komunikacji podczas mistrzostw świata w piłce nożnej. Największy dworzec kolejowy w Ameryce Północnej ma być sercem mundialowej komunikacji. Na wszelki wypadek New Jersey trzyma jednak w pogotowiu... promy.
‘We're going to need a bigger boat’: New Jersey prepares for Amtrak meltdowns during World Cup
Today in Chicago History: ‘World’s most beautiful office building’ contest announced by the Tribune Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on June 10, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: June 11, 1971 1971: Ten people were killed and more than 100 injured when Amtrak’s southbound City of New Orleans …
FIFA discovers democracy
FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks to the media during a press conference on June 10, 2026 in Mexico City, Mexico. | Carl Recine/Getty Images FIFA President Gianni Infantino is working on his third World Cup, which starts tomorrow in Mexico and then spreads across North America. His first tournaments were held in autocratic countries with governments willing to splash cash and use the games to sportswash their tarnished image on the global stage.
‘We're going to need a bigger boat’: New Jersey prepares for Amtrak meltdowns during World Cup
‘We're going to need a bigger boat’: New Jersey prepares for Amtrak meltdowns during World Cup NEWARK, New Jersey — New Jersey has a pair of boats on standby to ferry soccer fans across the Hudson River in case of a meltdown at North America's largest train station during the World Cup.
The mayor of the sports world
Global power is in flux. Your daily guide to what comes next. By CALDER MCHUGH and RY RIVARD New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani holds a miniature replica of the FIFA World Cup trophy at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on June 2, 2026. | Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images As this newsletter arrives in your inbox, game three of the NBA Finals — the first in New York City in 27 years — is just a few hours away.
New York’s half-billion-dollar party
After FIFA selected MetLife Stadium in 2022 as one of 11 U.S. venues for the World Cup, a regional host committee was established to assist in tournament planning. So far, the nonprofit committee — which is chaired by former New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy — has received $111 million in cash and loans from New Jersey, the state of New York and New York City.
New York’s half-billion-dollar party
New York and New Jersey governments will spend roughly a half-billion dollars to host the World Cup and other major events this summer, even as worries mount about the economic payback that comes from the world's largest sporting competition. While soccer governing body FIFA is responsible for most costs related to the match-day stadium experience, other expenses — including transportation and police overtime — are being borne largely by state and local governments.
Hochul and Mamdani boost World Cup vibes over WFH
FIRST UP: In an era when Democrats are looking for brash fighters and safe incumbents are suddenly finding themselves in competitive primaries, Micah Lasher is running a campaign that almost feels quaint by comparison: touting his experience and amassing endorsements from establishment Democrats and neighborhood political clubs. But if a playbook from yesteryear is going to work anywhere, it’s in one of the oldest and wealthiest congressional districts in the country, where Rep.
New Jersey's Mikie Sherrill rejects criticism of State Police response at Delaney Hall
NJ Transit World Cup train ticket sales lag with just days to go before the first match With the first World Cup match on June 13 at MetLife Stadium, only 4,000 train tickets had been sold for that game as of Tuesday, representing only …
New Jersey's Mikie Sherrill rejects criticism of State Police response at Delaney Hall
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But attention on Delaney Hall seemed to reach new heights amid recent reports of a hunger strike by detainees and a senator getting pepper-sprayed during a Memorial Day visit. Protesters descended on the facility in an industrial corner of Newark, setting off clashes with federal agents until Sherrill sent in her own police to try to calm things down. Instead, they too butted heads with protesters this weekend, prompting an outcry from the left.
New Jersey governor’s attempt to ‘lower the temperature’ is drawing heat instead
2 hours ago New Jersey has sued the operator of an immigration detention centre that has become a flashpoint over allegations of inhumane conditions for detainees. The lawsuit demands the facility's owner, GEO Group, a private contractor, allow state health inspectors more access to the facility in the city of …
New Jersey governor’s attempt to ‘lower the temperature’ is drawing heat instead Original
The new governor, a moderate Democrat, feared President Donald Trump could turn Newark into the next Minneapolis, where two residents were killed during a campaign by federal agents in the city. Sherrill said she deployed the State Police to “lower the temperature” and so Trump didn’t have a “pretext” to intervene further in Newark.
Sherrill, Newark mayor back partial curfew in New Jersey’s largest city Original
State Attorney General Jenn Davenport said during a Sunday press conference with the governor that “a large group of individuals took significant aggressive and threatening actions” at Delaney Hall. Some, she said, set tires on fire in the street and tried to use a “bike rack barrier as a weapon” toward law enforcement. “When the attacks took place last night, we had some red lines, one of them is obviously public safety and the safety of our law enforcement,” Sherrill said.
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The announcement comes after days of chaos at Delaney Hall, the state’s largest immigrant detention center. The 1,000-bed federal facility — run by the GEO Group, a private company — has been the site of repeated scrums between protestors and federal agents.
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