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Mamdani used his first veto to block a protest-buffer bill on free-speech grounds. Hochul slid a statewide version into the budget and never told him.

Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation creating 50-foot security buffer zones around New York houses of worship, prohibiting protests near religious sites.

Portrait of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a dark suit and blue polka-dot tie against a dark background.

Mamdani used his first veto to block a protest-buffer bill on free-speech grounds. Hochul slid a statewide version into the budget and never told him.

Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation creating 50-foot security buffer zones around New York houses of worship, prohibiting protests near religious sites.

Mamdani used his first veto to block a protest-buffer bill on free-speech grounds. Hochul slid a statewide version into the budget and never told him.
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Six weeks after Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent his very first veto killing a City Council bill that would have pushed protesters back from schools, Governor Kathy Hochul accomplished the same thing across all of New York State, folded it quietly into the $268 billion budget, and then told reporters she never discussed it with him. “We have a lot of conversations,” Hochul said, “but just not on this one topic,” per JNS. On May 31, she signed it in a Cipriani ballroom full of about 600 Jewish community leaders, according to The Jewish Star.

The headlines on this have been sloppy. The new law does not ban all protest within 50 feet of every house of worship. It does two things. First, it creates…

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Filed underAntisemitism / Buffer Zones / Chuck Schumer / Grace Meng / Houses of Worship / Kathy Hochul / Met Council / NYC

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