“This is going to be a really exciting race,” said Hunter Rabinowitz, Brooklyn Young Democrats president. “The way that Manhattan and Brooklyn are split this time around are really important and really interesting. A large majority is in the 52nd Assembly District, which is the highest turnout voting district in all of New York state, and that is a really significant fact about the way this race is going to shape up.

“Obviously you have Bill de Blasio who appears to be the only official Brooklyn candidate to announce and you have Yuh-Line Niou, who is the only official Manhattan candidate to announce. So I think what you're really going to see is a play out between Brooklyn and Manhattan candidates.

“When push comes to shove, Mondaire Jones obviously has a lot of money in his bank, and it's going to help him, but I think what you're seeing here is a matter of disconnect between party politics and actual, on-the-ground politics here. What I mean by that is, obviously a lot of this has come from Sean Patrick Maloney announcing he is going to continue to run in what is now Mondaire Jones' district. Given his status in the larger Democratic Party, it's clear that this is a shift that was done, whether officially or unofficially, by larger party politics. As much as I understand that plan, I do think that Mondaire Jones has been quite a great legislator. He definitely has a lot of money, but he's also not even from New York City.

“There are still more players to come out here, but I do think that you’re going to see how strong party politics is compared to community politics in this race.”