It was from the “People’s Republic of Astoria” that Zohran Mamdani’s fledgling mayoral campaign laid its early roots in 2024. Now, two years later, could the neighborhood be poised to provide the launchpad for a presidential bid?
At a raucous election watch party hosted by the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA) at Astoria’s Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden on Nov. 3, organizers and elected officials toasted a historic night, with the DSA preparing to send the largest bloc of socialists in American history to Congress next January.
