Belaaz Exclusive: Satmar Leadership of Both Groups Meet Cuomo and Mayor Adams in Williamsburg

In a historic show of achdus, both Satmar groups met with independent candidate and former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Eric Adams Wednesday night in Williamsburg.

Belaaz has learned that while neither group will issue a formal endorsement, Rabbi Moshe Indig and Rabbi Moshe Dovid Niederman, representing both factions of Satmar Chasidus, greeted Cuomo and Adams warmly and listened attentively to both politicians’ speeches, which warned of the catastrophe of a Mamdani mayorship.

Askanim assembled described the meeting as a “family reunion.”

The meeting was at a small, personal rooftop venue in Williamsburg, and included the mayor’s Jewish media liasion and esteemed askanim.

Adams said that Satmar comes together when it really matters, such as this election, and cited the murder of Menachem Stark in 2014, which also brought the community together.

Cuomo said that if Mamdani wins, the Democratic Socialists of America will collectively run the city, and will ruin Yeshiva education.

If you’re thinking, we’ll make nice to this guy [Mamdani], he’s ahead in the polls, I saw this DSA movement in Albany. They cannot make nice. There’s no “him,” they’ll meet with him once a week. They’re talking about a “co-governance” model, where DSA members will meet with him once a week. He’s a tool of the DSA. I spent 10 years watching them grow. We thought if we give them a little bit, they’ll be happy. We gave them the hand, but they ate it, then they ate the arm, the shoulder, until the whole body was gone. They will not allow him to help you, because they’re against everything that you’re going to need. They don’t want yeshivos. They have the teachers union, everything should be public; no charter schools, no private schools. It’s against their religion to help you. They are zealots. Ask Carl Heastie…you can’t talk to them. He will not be a friend, he will be an enemy to you.”

Cuomo then explained how the turnout for early voting has been 5 times as much as the last election, and that older voters, who he is more popular with, are coming out in much higher numbers than they did during the primaries.

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Adams, who exited the race recently and endorsed Cuomo, said: “I think it’s imperative that the governor gets in and not allow our city to go backwards.”

“This is about the city, and if we like it or not…I said to Andrew, that families argue, families fight. If we were talking about a Brad Lander, who was a terrible leader, or Scott Stringer, I wouldn’t be here today. They hate our way of life,” Adams said, referring to the DSA.