It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. On today's show, what happens with housing

development? What actually happens now that the city's ballot measures on that got approved?

Also, the Supreme Court, here's the Trump Tariff's case.

We'll hear a little bit of audio on how the justices question the two sides

and why this case is being watched so closely for its impact, not only on prices, but on American democracy.

But we start with more about the election of Zeranam Danya's mayor.

With us now as political analyst and sometimes organizer, Michael Lang,

who writes the fascinating New York politics newsletter called The Narrative Wars.

How closely does he inspect New York politics?

Well, on the day before the election,

he posted an article called predicting every block of the 2025 New York City mayor election.

Maybe we'll see how much he got right. Also before the election, he wrote a piece called

How Zoran Can Reach 50%, which Momdani did, and one called the End of Andrew Cuomo, cheekily

subtitled, the politics of pronunciation, and most of you know what that refers to.

So Michael Lang's been on it.

By way of background, he also formerly worked in the district office of Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez,

and on the successful campaign of one of the

exonerated Central Park 5, Yusuf Salam, for the New York City Council. Michael, thanks for coming on at

this historic moment. Welcome back to WNYC. Oh, it's such a pleasure to be here. Thank you for

having me, Brian. So how does one even try to predict every block? That's more than

120,000 New York City blocks by your account in an election of 2 million votes? Well, it takes one very

large Google spreadsheet and a lot of past data and also just, I would say, a lifetime living in New York City and walking

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