From red berets to revenue spreadsheets, the city tests which vibe can actually govern.

New York has decided to stage a mayoral race as performance art, and the casting is inspired: Curtis Sliwa, Zohran Mamdani, and Andrew Cuomo—three storefronts on the same block of civic neurosis.
It’s a Broadway revival of Democracy! with original songs by the subway brakes and lighting by ConEd.
Sliwa arrives first, because he travels at beret speed.
He campaigns like a vintage radio tuned to…
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