Monday Headlines: Dark And Stormy Edition

Fall fell with a thud (or was that the trees hitting our power lines?) this weekend. Traveling by any medium was a soggy mess, but at least we have a new week to work with.

Across The Empire State:

• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent the weekend in Buffalo and Ithaca, where she launched a voter-turnout operation and insists she’s truly undecided between the Senate and the White House. (Axios)
• President Trump’s latest round of praise for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is landing at an awkward moment for Republicans who want to run against him in the midterms. (Politico New York)
• Democrat Mike DeCillis says national and local Democrats gave up on flipping Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’s Staten Island–southern Brooklyn seat long ago. (NY1)
• Jeremy Zellner was re-elected Erie County Democratic chair with more than 85 percent of the vote, days after Erie County Republicans gave Michael Kracker another term. (BTPM)
• Brooklyn Democratic Party leaders are working to retain power at any cost. (The New York Times)
• Gas price hikes are becoming a political issue in New York. (State of Politics)
• The 21st Congressional District race continues to be a close-knit affair. (Times Union)
• More than 5,200 customers in the Hudson Valley and Catskills were still without power Sunday morning after the nor’easter, with Central Hudson expecting most back by Sunday evening and some Ulster County customers waiting until Monday. (WAMC)
• Wind, downed trees and rain from the nor’easter threatened to snarl subway service. (The City Reporter)
• In an op-ed, MTA Chair Janno Lieber says the agency has awarded a $19.7 million design contract for an $800 million project to protect Hudson Line track between Spuyten Duyvil and Hastings-on-Hudson from storms. (amNY)
• Dutchess County District Attorney Anthony Parisi and Sheriff Kirk Imperati pulled their support for the county’s Flock license plate reader contract after a public forum on privacy, and Democrats in the county legislature want data collection suspended. (WAMC)
• Nassau County residents are tracked by a Flock camera roughly every 9.5 miles, making it one of the most surveilled places in the country. (The New York Post)
• Beacon’s police chief explained how the city’s camera system works. (Highlands Current)
• The New York City Council’s transportation committee takes up more than 20 micromobility bills Wednesday, including three aimed at taking Class 3 e-bikes off city streets. (Gothamist)