The two New York liberal stalwarts are colliding in an August 23 primary, locked in a war for political survival. rossbarkan writes
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images This past November, Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler threw on reflective safety vests to visit the construction site of the latest Second Avenue subway extension. As colleagues and casual friends, they were used to appearing at events together over their past three decades in Congress representing Manhattan’s Upper East Side and Upper West Side, respectively.
The race has not only pitted two prestigious lawmakers against each other but also rammed together two distinct, if gentrifying and homogenizing, cultures: Daniel against Zabar’s, Carl Schurz against Riverside, Gossip Girl against Seinfeld. Staunchly liberal, the Upper West Side has, over time, shed some of its distinctly Jewish and socialist character, though it’s still easy enough to corner a red-diaper alte kaker on Broadway.
Nadler, 75, is short, squat, and cerebral, the studious and somewhat imperious shtarker liberal of the Jewish Upper West Side. The 76-year-old Maloney, who still speaks with the southern lilt of her North Carolina upbringing, is the feisty feminist of the Waspish Upper East Side, taking constituent calls from the very wealthiest men and women in the world.
Hanging over it all is the endorsement decision from the New York Times editorial board. There is no district in America where the Paper of Record’s sign-off is more crucial, particularly to those on the West Side who treat the Times as a totem. With his votes against Iraq and for the Iran deal, Nadler is thought to have the edge with the board’s liberals, though Maloney, as a woman and fierce advocate for abortion rights in a post-Roe world, is not out of the hunt.
Maloney campaigning on the Upper East Side in June. Photo: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Shutterstock Nadler, in his view at least, made Representative Maloney possible in 1992. “I called up Denny Farrell, a colleague of mine who at the time was the county Democratic leader, and I said, ‘Denny, are you looking at the congressional lines?’ And he said ‘yes.’ He looked at it, and I remember his exact quote.
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