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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]