“Every mayor has a volcanic experience. None of them has a calm time.

When you sit in the chair in City Hall, one of the things you can expect is that your life will never be the same.”

“Just because two politicians announced they’re won the battle for the same office doesn’t mean you’ve lost your mind. You heard right. Maybe they think New York City has a parliamentary form of government where coalitions switch leaders when no clear majority exists...”

“The subway station platform edge dancer sings, laughs loudly.

So-called normal civilians worriedly watch the dancer, wondering when a feather push will send him to Potter’s Field once…”

“AOC can beat Kirsten Gillibrand. AOC will raise the money. She can beat her because Kirsten Gillibrand is the invisible senator. She has done very little to cement that incumbency and the electorate is angry...”

“She’ll have to forge agreement between different groups and develop policy with a city administration that she may have to, in fact, be in conflict with in order to survive politically,” Hank Sheinkopf, a political consultant who works with a number of labor unions, said. “She has to be very nimble.”