Frank G. Runyeon

The Kings County Democratic County Committee voted overwhelmingly to endorse Jumaane Williams for public advocate Tuesday night, in a leftward shift for an organization that has been seen as tightly controlled by centrist party bosses.

'We all have a stake in this, not just the 400,000 people who live in NYCHA housing.'

'We totally wiped the floor with the Republicans all over the state,” says state Senator Michael Gianaris, who quarterbacked his party’s election strategy. Here is a closer look at how local Democrats won big in New York.

Given how consistently Staten Island voters elected Republicans to Congress in recent years, few pundits or prognosticators believed Rose could pull off a win.

Rep. Dan Donovan being interviewed outside a ShopRite (Frank G. Runyeon

Beneath the surface, control of the county committee meeting had already been determined by how many county committee members had signed over their votes to faction leaders.

Posters and op/eds published in Orthodox newspapers, as well as some reported to be posted in schools and sent home with yeshiva students, warned of the dangers of electing a liberal Democrat like Blake Morris.

Giveaways are a clear violation of state election law.

If swaying voting behavior of the multifaceted and insular Orthodox community seems like a Sisyphean task, Morris says he can’t help himself: 'I was raised to believe that behind every no, there is a yes.'