Eric Holmberg

Managing Editor, City & State New York. Former data journalist @PublicSourcePA. Award-winning mule writer.

[City & State NY @CityAndStateNY]

LET’S GOOOOOOOOO

[Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul]

Dream. Team.

After years of planning, the World Cup is finally here.

What a day.

[Jeff Coltin @JCColtin]

“Recently, many in DSA have argued that support for the NYPD is fundamentally incompatible with socialist politics,” @PeterSterne reports:
https://t.co/0tSwsgUKqk

[Rebecca C. Lewis @_rebeccaclewis]

Congressional Black Caucus PAC Chair (and Queens Dem boss) Gregory Meeks with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Black Harlem leaders are doubling down on their support of Rep. Adriano Espaillat on the 1st day of early voting.
Notably absent: Keith Wright

[Jeff Coltin @JCColtin]

Turns out there *is* a tweet of Nydia Velázquez affirmatively endorsing Joe Crowley in 2018.

[Jeff Coltin @JCColtin]

Nydia Velázquez denied endorsing Crowley over AOC in 2018... which is contradicted by an archived version of his campaign site.
Velázquez tells me she doesn't remember that, and insists there was no announcement, no press release. Says she *knew* Ocasio-Cortez was going to win.

[Peter Sterne @petersterne]

Darializa Avila Chevalier couldn’t make the NYC-DSA rally with @hasanthehun so they brought out a cardboard cutout of her to stand next to Hasan and @claireforny.

[Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender]

This group is about to drop a $400,000 ad buy in the NYC media market, per FCC filings:

[Rob Pyers @rpyers]

Mike Bloomberg doubles down with another $5 million to the SuperPAC backing Micah Lasher in the #NY12 Democratic primary

[Jeff Coltin @JCColtin]

“That’s a betrayal,” Children’s Village CEO Jeremy Christopher Kohomban says about Mamdani admin potentially delaying payments to nonprofits due to low cash reserves - per big scoop by @MelissaRusso4NY.
That’s the talk of City & State and NYN Media’s Nonprofit OpCon today.

[Melissa Russo @MelissaRusso4NY]

NEW: With NYC’s cash flow tightening the Mamdani Admin considers delaying payments -due in July- to hundreds of nonprofits serving ppl in need. A new law requires NYC to pay these contractors more up-front this yr with an exception for fiscal constraints.
https://t.co/QB0qAbrFsQ

[Edward-Isaac Dovere @IsaacDovere]

NEW from me: expect to see a lot of more @AOC campaigning this fall, as she road tests her appeal and her appetite for her 2028 options.

With details about what she’s been doing in figuring out endorsements, building bridges back in DC… and knitting: https://t.co/3997czjTiR

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

First in Semafor: New Justice Dems/DFP poll has Zohran-backed Darializa Avila Chevalier up 4 points on Rep. Espaillat

https://t.co/ZNFXm6uizt

[Dennis Young @dpyoung13]

Dani Lever, who once advised Andrew Cuomo's team to "victim shame on the record," is now the head of strategic communications at Kalshi https://t.co/IeKuK4aXvM

[City & State NY @CityAndStateNY]

This is a place where every day you wake up you could experience everything from the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history to a person who’s celebrating a new business that’s open.

[Jeff Coltin @JCColtin]

Eric Adams is at the Knicks game, per the former mayor’s spokesperson - and he found Carmelo Anthony.

[Nick Reisman @NickReisman]

Per the Division of Budget, the final state budget is now at $277 billion, not the $268 billion initially announced at the "general agreement" presser. The DOB says the extra money is due to accessing frozen Medicaid dollars by reverting back to the basic health plan

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

Scoop: Zohran Mamdani was poised to hold his first meeting with a foreign leader this week but the Trump administration effectively nixed it in a behind-the-scenes effort that marks a new flashpoint between the mayor and Trump. W/ @iarnsdorf 🧵

[CATargetBot0001 @CATargetBot0001]

NEW FEC F24
STAND FOR NEW YORK PAC
$828,631-> #NY12
https://t.co/DLKZ7n4aHz

[Chris Sommerfeldt @C_Sommerfeldt]

New: Sherif Soliman, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s budget chief, privately briefed members of the Democratic Socialists of America on the state of NYC's finances last week — a move that could raise ethical concerns, per a government watchdog. https://t.co/umRkyhesll