Elections

UPDATE Elections 2025: Dems Kick Off Gen Election Campaign as Aldebol Aims to Regain Sole BX Red Council Seat

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Chippewa Democratic Club members said that over forty people gathered at the club’s meeting hall for a fundraiser and general election kick-off event in support of City Council District 13 Democratic nominee, Shirley Aldebol, on Monday, Aug. 11. The seat is currently held since 2024 by Republican City Councilwoman Kristy Mamorato, the only Bronx Republican in the City Council, after Mamorato caused an upset in the previously long-held Democratic East Bronx district, and unseated its most recent Democrat, former Council Member Marjorie Velázquez in the 2023 general election.

The Late Sandra Pabon Honored on Home Turf

By SÍLE MOLONEY
On a glorious summer’s day, in an atmosphere infused with joy and laughter, family, friends, elected officials, and numerous colleagues of the late Sandra Pabon, a former NYPD chaplain and Democratic state committeewoman for A.D. 80, gathered together on her birthday, Saturday, July 19, for a street co-naming ceremony in her memory at the corner of East 204th Street and Hull Avenue in Norwood, close to her former home. As reported, Pabon died on June 2, 2023.

UPDATE Espaillat, Sanchez, Hotel & Gaming Trades Council & 1199SEIU Endorse Mamdani for Mayor

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Local elected officials, Congressman Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), Bronx Councilwoman Pierina Sanchez (C.D. 14), the Hotel & Gaming Trades Council, the 1199SEIU, and others have all recently endorsed Democratic mayoral nominee Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (A.D. 36) for mayor of New York City in recent weeks in the upcoming general mayoral election. As reported, Espaillat had previously endorsed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary.