{"id":215,"date":"2026-06-15T09:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:09:20","slug":"meet-the-voters-of-new-yorks-12th-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Meet the voters of New York\u2019s 12th Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>New York\u2019s 12th Congressional District, theManhattan district running from the Upper West and Upper East Sides down to Chelsea and Stuyvesant Town, is the city\u2019s wealthiest. It is home to Billionaires\u2019 Row, Museum Mile, Broadway, Meta\u2019s New York City headquarters and the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=212\">NYC-DSA chides Mamdani for increasing NYPD headcount<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two of NY-12\u2019s many influential residents \u2013 Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin \u2013\u00a0have stayed conspicuously silent about their picks in the race to succeed retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler. But they\u2019re not the only bold-faced names casting votes in this election. City &amp; State spoke to some of the district\u2019s other notables \u2013\u00a0and a handful of engaged voters we met along the way at the race\u2019s televised debates, forums and other campaign events \u2013\u00a0about which of the eight candidates they\u2019re backing, the issues that matter to them, and what NY-12 should be known for beyond its money and power. <em>Conversations have been edited for length and clarity<\/em>. <em>Shoutout to New York Magazine\u2019s Look Book, which inspired this format.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=210\">Opinion: That day at departure<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous, affluent, opinionated, conscious of what Gale Brewer thinks and committed to Nina Schwalbe against the odds gosh darn it! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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