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The Commie Corridor is a progressive political region of New York City.[1] The term was created by political analyst Michael Lange to describe Zohran Mamdani's leftist base in the 2025 Democratic mayoral primary.[2][3]
The region consists of neighborhoods in western Queens and northern Brooklyn, including Astoria, Long Island City, Ridgewood, Sunnyside, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, East Williamsburg, Fort Greene, Bushwick, and Clinton Hill.[4][5][6] The gentrified neighborhoods are largely young, white and Latino, upper-middle class, college-educated renters.[7][4][8] The corridor has a "bohemian culture similar to that of college towns". In these neighborhoods, Mamdani's margin over Andrew Cuomo reached as high as 52 points.[4] Cynthia Nixon carried the area in the 2018 New York gubernatorial election. Mamdani notably performed well in areas outside the region, an improvement over past progressives.[9][8]
Nationalist writer Michael Lind, writing in The Telegraph, framed Mamdani's win as a conflict between metropolitan professionals in the corridor and the metropolitan rich. He said that professionals, priced out of Manhattan, envied the rich and their servants.[7] Irish nationalist journalist Kevin Myers wrote in the Brussels Signal argued that Mamdani's win showed that Western civilization was moving toward Islam, and compared the corridor to Islington.[10] In The Metropolitan Review, writer Annie Fell contrasted the corridor with wealthy parts of Manhattan that felt "alien and spiritually nauseating".[11] The Wall Street Journal said that Mamdani's base in the area were downwardly mobile millennials who felt they were worse-off than their parents.[12]
See also
[edit]- Democratic Socialists of America
- Gentrification in the United States
- History of the socialist movement in the United States
- Neighborhoods in New York City
References
[edit]- ^ "There's No Hope for the Center-Right in New York's Mayoral Race". city-journal.org. City Journal. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- ^ "A roadmap to beat Trump? How rise of Zohran Mamdani is dividing Democrats". theguardian.com. The Guardian. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- ^ "The Voters Who Turned Out for Zohran Mamdani". wnyc.org. WNYC. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- ^ a b c "The Anatomy of Mamdani's Political Earthquake". nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- ^ "Israel Was Supposed to Sink Zohran Mamdani Will the Democratic Party absorb the lesson?". nymag.com. New York Magazine. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- ^ "A House map battle". politico.com. Politico. Retrieved 31 July 2025.
- ^ a b "New York's elite is at war over the cost of their immigrant servant class". telegraph.co.uk. The Telegraph. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- ^ a b "Notes on the State of Politics: The Mamdani Upset and a Deeper Look at Virginia". centerforpolitics.org. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- ^ "Here's what the Democrats can learn from Zohran Mamdani". The Guardian. The Guardian. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- ^ "Western civilisation inching Mecca-wards: Muslims govern London, soon NY". brusselssignal.eu. Brussels Signal. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
- ^ "A Million Little Failures: On James Frey's Next to Heaven". metropolitanreview.com. The Metropolitan Review. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- ^ "Downwardly Mobile Elites Love Zohran Mamdani". wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 July 2025.