Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill played host on Sunday to one of the strangest sights so far in the 2025 NYC Mayor’s Race: A bipartisan slate of mayoral candidates standing together with mourning families to oppose campaign frontrunner and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo over his handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes.
Seven Democratic candidates for mayor — City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, City Comptroller Brad Lander, Queens Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, Brooklyn state Sen. Zellnor Myrie, former New York State Representative Michael Blake, Queens state Sen. Jessica Ramos and former City Comptroller Scott Stringer — joined Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in denouncing Cuomo for actions taken while he was governor five years ago during the deadly peak of COVID-19 that they say allowed the deadly virus to rampage through nursing homes across the Empire State.
