Overview
- The 51-member City Council will choose a new speaker in January, with 26 votes required to succeed term-limited Adrienne Adams.
- Reporting indicates Queens members are largely leaning toward Julie Menin, Brooklyn and Staten Island toward Crystal Hudson, and Manhattan and the Bronx are split.
- Menin cites a broad coalition that includes Council members Shaun Abreu, Kevin Riley, and Linda Lee, plus backing from the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council and Rep. Gregory Meeks.
- Hudson is drawing support from left-leaning colleagues such as Lincoln Restler, Sandy Nurse, Rita Joseph, and Carmen De La Rosa, who ended her own bid to back Hudson.
- Brooklyn leaders are exploring a united delegation strategy, with some members describing broad support for Hudson while county leader Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn says many remain uncommitted as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s potential role remains an open question.