Manhattan Congressional Debate: Maloney As Sincere to Nadler As Mafia Don Before a Whack

New York’s political attention is riveted on the candidate knife fight over the new congressional district covering Park Slope, but in COVID-neglected core Manhattan, we have our own knife fight: the three-way match among incumbents Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler and upstart former Obama-administration attorney Suraj Patel. The NY1/WNYC debate Tuesday night pointed up big differences — on infrastructure spending, of all things. 

Manhattan has always had two congressional reps: one representing the west side and one the east (think John Lindsay’s “silk stocking” Upper East Side and Bella Abzug’s West Side district).

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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here. 

This piece originally appeared in New York Post