Good morning. It's Wednesday. Today we'll look at how key races in New York turned out. We'll also find out about a "vigil for the healing of the world" that the Episcopal bishop of New York will lead tonight.
On a troubling election night for Democrats, they found a bright spot in central New York, where they flipped the first House seat in the country. State Senator John Mannion beat the incumbent, Representative Brandon Williams, in a district that includes Syracuse and Utica, according to The Associated Press. Williams, a Republican, had been widely considered the most vulnerable congressman in the nation after redistricting added more Democrats to the district. Mannion is a former high school biology teacher who won a State Senate seat four years ago. Campaigning against Williams, Mannion played up his success in persuading state officials to go along with tax breaks that tipped Micron's decision to build a giant semiconductor manufacturing complex near Syracuse. Democrats also won in a closely watched race in the Hudson Valley, where Representative Pat Ryan, a moderate who had been a top national target for Republicans, won a second full term, according to The A.P. He defeated Alison Esposito, a conservative former New York City police commander and candidate for lieutenant governor. Republicans had hoped she would draw Democrats away from Ryan, but he dominated in fund-raising and fended off attacks about immigration and crime. Democrats fell short in eastern Long Island, where Representative Nick LaLota, the Republican incumbent, secured a second term, defeating John Avlon, a former CNN commentator and first-time candidate, according to The A.P. LaLota had attacked Avlon, who helped found the centrist political group No Labels and bought a home in the district in 2017, as a "fake Long Islander." In Brooklyn, Representative Hakeem Jeffries, who succeeded Representative Nancy Pelosi as the House Democratic leader in 2022, was elected to a seventh term, according to The A.P. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also a Democrat, was elected to a fourth term in her district in Queens and the Bronx. The SenateSenator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, was elected to a third full term, according to The A.P. She defeated the Republican Mike Sapraicone, a retired New York City police detective who runs a security company, and Diane Sare, who ran as an independent. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who introduced Gillibrand at a victory party in Manhattan on Tuesday night, cited Gillibrand's work in fighting for paid family leave and the 9/11 emergency workers fund. In New Jersey, Representative Andy Kim was elected to the Senate seat that had long been held by Robert Menendez, according to The A.P. Menendez, who had been the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, resigned after he was convicted of taking bribes. Kim, a fellow Democrat who will become the first Korean American in the Senate, announced his candidacy the day after Menendez was indicted last year. Tammy Murphy, the wife of Gov. Phil Murphy, threw her hat in the ring a couple of months later. But her candidacy was built almost entirely on support from county political leaders whose futures depend on staying on her husband's good side. She dropped out before the primary election — after Kim, among others, had denounced her campaign. State and city ballot measuresOn the flip side of the ballot, voters approved an equal rights amendment that was tied to abortion access, according to The A.P. Republicans had framed the measure — which referred to "pregnancy outcomes and reproductive health" but did not explicitly mention abortion — as an attack on family values. Their messaging against the proposal centered on the protections it would offer to transgender people. In New York City, voters approved a ballot measure that would give the Department of Sanitation more power over how it cleans public spaces like parks and highway median strips. Opponents said the change would make it easier for the city to sweep vendors and homeless people off the street. The measure originated with a charter revision commission formed by Mayor Eric Adams. His critics said that empaneling the commission was a stratagem to block a City Council proposal that would have compelled him to seek Council approval on 21 commissioner-level appointments. Four other proposals that would make changes to the City Charter were also on the ballot; with 70 percent of votes in early Wednesday morning, the "yes" votes slightly outweighed the "no"s for three of them, while the reverse was true for the fourth. WEATHER Expect sunshine with temperatures in the high 70s. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with temperatures in the low 60s. ALTERNATE-SIDE PARKING In effect until Monday (Veterans Day). The latest New York news
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On Sunday, Matthew Heyd called the election "a moment of anxiety." Tonight Heyd, the Episcopal bishop of New York, will convene a "vigil for the healing of the world," an interfaith service for sharing "expressions of hope for our collective futures." Joining him at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine for the service at 7 p.m. will be the Rev. Dr. Chloe Breyer, the executive director of the Interfaith Center of New York; Rabbi Hilly Haber, the director of social justice organizing and education at Central Synagogue; Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, the executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis; and the Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil-rights leader and the founder of the National Action Network. "All of us come from slightly different experiences but come from the experience of a painful present," Heyd said. "Anxiety and fear and uncertainty — that's the entire narrative at the moment about our common life as a country. We hear about people's anxieties everywhere we go. It's just the conversation of the moment." He said that in his own Episcopal diocese, which encompasses 180 churches from Staten Island to Poughkeepsie, the "language of this campaign and the overall civic environment" had been "really painful for lots of our people." He did not mention either presidential candidate by name in his sermon at St. John the Divine on Sunday, but he did mention "racist attacks on the subway and from the main stage at Madison Square Garden," a reference to the rally for Donald Trump on Oct. 27. He also said that "the fascism that our grandparents defeated in Europe is creeping in here at home." And he referred to another rally at Madison Square Garden — in 1933. The crowd of more than 35,000 people heard former Gov. Al Smith and interfaith leaders protest Hitler's attacks on Jews. Heyd said in the sermon that one of his predecessors as bishop, William Thomas Manning, had spoken at the 1933 rally, and when I spoke with Heyd on Tuesday, he noted that Episcopalians from New York had helped write the Constitution. "The phrase 'a more perfect union' was written by Gouverneur Morris, a member of one our churches. It's what we've all been struggling toward ever since." METROPOLITAN DIARY Out of Serviss
Dear Diary: I was helping my son move out of a third-floor walk-up in Crown Heights. He had worked it out the night before so that we had a parking space right in front of his building for the U-Haul the morning of the move. The building had an elevator, but it wasn't working. The same misspelled sign had been draped across the door for a year: "Out of Serviss." Sweating as we finished up that morning, I made my last trip down the building's worn marble stairs and saw a box truck double-parked next to our U-Haul. Two workmen in hard hats and harnesses were sitting on the building's stoop and sipping coffee from thermos cups. Will you be leaving soon, one asked. We have work in the building. I nodded and smiled, and then fumbled for the key. As I pulled out, I saw the name of their company on the side of the truck: Brooklyn Elevator Inc. — Stephen Howe Illustrated by Agnes Lee. Send submissions here and read more Metropolitan Diary here. Glad we could get together here. See you tomorrow. — J.B. P.S. Here's today's Mini Crossword and Spelling Bee. You can find all our puzzles here. Francis Mateo and Ed Shanahan contributed to New York Today. You can reach the team at nytoday@nytimes.com. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox.
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N.Y. Today: Election results in key New York races
November 06, 2024
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