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New York City is in a very special sort of pergatory right now.

I mean, to be fair. I think that's true in a lot of ways

New Yorkers are still one foot in this COVID Bandoule 세 and one foot out

We're living hot girl summer and also socially stunted girl wants to sit inside with the air conditioner on all day.

summer. But the kind of purgatory I'm talking about right now is a political one.

The city of New York just got done with a pretty major election, the Democratic primaries

for the mayor of New York. Since New Yorkers will pretty likely go with the Democratic

nominee, this primary was a pretty big fucking deal. There's a lot on the line from police

budgets to subway renovations to affordable housing. But the thing is, even though the election

was last week, we still don't know who won. New York started using rank choice voting

this year. And I'll let you Google how that works because honestly, we don't have all

that. But in practice, what it means is that instead of having results on election

night, it'll be weeks until most candidates know whether they've won or lost. That goes

for mayor, but also for dozens of smaller local races too. And all this made me think

about Jesslene Carr, the city council candidate for New York's 23rd district, who I interviewed

a few months ago. When we last spoke, Jesslene was at the heat of her campaign in a dead sprint

to the finish. And now she's in this sort of itchy, anxious limbo. It's like a plane

that has landed, but the pilot isn't opening the doors.

Yeah, so the BOE is predicting a good chunk of the results to be finished by July 12th.

So it's coming up real soon. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. But still, it's like two weeks out.

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