Hour 2: The first NYC mayoral debate.

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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A new vote for a casino in Queens, NY, next to Citi Field, is a go, according to the community advisory board in the city. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews political strategist Ed Rollins. The first NYC mayoral debate will be on October 16th, 2025. This could determine who NYC will pick, after months of back-and-forth drama between candidates. Ed breaks down what the candidates need to speak about in order to win. Does Andrew Cuomo have a better chance of beating Mamdani since Mayor Adams has dropped out?

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0:00.0	His job?
0:01.6	Make it all make sense.
0:03.8	He's Mark Simone on 710 WOR.
0:09.9	Hey, you know, that's the very last day of September.
0:13.3	October begins tomorrow.
0:14.7	October 1st.
0:16.9	Wow.
0:17.7	That summer went by fast.
0:19.7	Autumn, I don't know.
0:20.8	It doesn't feel like autumn yet. It just does that summer went by fast. Autumn, I don't know, it doesn't feel like autumn yet.
0:21.9	It just does that summer feel, but October begins tomorrow.
0:26.1	So lots to talk about this hour.
0:29.3	You know, they're turning down casinos all over New York.
0:32.6	Coney Island got rejected.
0:33.9	All the Manhattan casinos got rejected.
0:35.6	They're voting today on Queens next to
0:38.8	City Field on approving that one. We'll let you know when that happens at the vote going on
0:45.0	probably as we speak. Now, what does anybody think of this idea? If you live in Connecticut,
0:56.7	Fairfield County, Connecticut, or even a little further up, you know, around New Haven County, if you live in Connecticut and you want to go
1:01.9	to Long Island, you got to drive all the way down to Westchester and into the Bronx, and then you
1:09.2	got to go over the Throgsneck Bridge
1:11.1	and the Whitestone Bridge, and then all the way out in Long Island. So in other words,
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