Plenty of Manhattan donors for Buttigieg: study
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
Manhattan really likes
“Mayor Pete,” according
to a new interactive map
documenting 2020 presidential
race donations across New York
City.
The RentHop sought to find out
which candidates in the 2020 election
were getting the most support
by looking at which ZIP codes
have the most unique donors for
each candidate. According to their
findings, New York City as a whole
is “Feeling the Bern” — Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders had the
most unique donors with 6,971 in
total last year.
Former South Bend, IN Mayor
Pete Buttigieg is behind Sanders
with 5,025 donors, with Massachusetts
Senator Elizabeth
Warren following with 4,668
donors. President Trump is next in
line with 3,058, and former Vice
President Joe Biden trails behind
with 2,804 donors.
In Manhattan, Buttigieg is leading
the way with 3,928 unique
donors overall. In particular,
Buttigieg scooped up 416 donors
in the 10011 ZIP code (Chelsea/
Midtown West), 339 unique donors
in 10023 (Upper West Side),
288 in 10024, 210 in 10003 (East
Village), and 182 in 10128 (Upper
East Side), all of which when
combined totaled $2,321,833.39
in donations.
Though Buttigieg maintained
the highest number in Manhattan,
Sanders followed behind with
2,787 unique donors. Warren and
Biden followed with 2,341 donors
and 2,281 donors, respectively,
with Biden picking up two support
in the 10021 ZIP code with 198
donors and the 10028 ZIP code
with 147 donors, both in the Upper
East Side.
Like the city as a whole,
Brooklyn had the most support
for Sanders with 2,797 total
unique donors. Sanders picked
up the most donors in the 11216
ZIP code (Bedford Stuyvesant)
with 177 donors, followed by the
11222 area (Little Poland) with
170 donors. Following behind
Sanders is Warren, who had 1,791
total donors — she also picked
up the most donors in the 11215
ZIP code (South Slope) with 283
unique donors and the 11201 ZIP
code (Downtown Brooklyn) with
220 unique donors.
In Queens, Sanders maintain
the most support with 984 donors.
Northwestern Queens showed
a lot of support for Sanders,
particularly in the 11101 (Long
Island City) area with 53 donors,
the 11106 area (Long Island City)
also with 53 donors, and the
11105 area (Steinway) with 58
donors. However, Queens also
garnered a fair amount of support
for Trump: in total, Trump secured
867 unique donors. Queens’ 11357
ZIP code (Whitestone) mustered
up 54 unique donors for Trump,
followed by 23 in the 11379 ZIP
code (Middle Village).
Up in the Bronx, Sanders had
the most unique donors with 205
in total, with Trump close behind
with 185 donors. While Sanders
had many ZIP codes with the
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most donors, including 10463
(Riverdale) with 51 unique donors,
Trump picked up the most support
in the 10465 ZIP code (Eastchester
Bay) with 42 donors.
Out on Staten Island, Trump
maintained his support with 388
unique donors last year, which
Sanders behind him with 127
donors. While most ZIP codes
on Staten Island favored Trump,
the borough had one outlier: the
10301 ZIP code (Silver Lake)
showed more support for Sanders
with 27 total donors, followed by
23 donors for Trump.
Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg leads
the Democratic field of presidential contenders in financial
donors from Manhattan.
Hoylman, senators look to ban ‘ghost guns’
BY GRANT LANCASTER
New York Legislators proposed
bills on Feb. 14,
the second anniversary
of the school shooting in Parkland,
Florida, aimed at banning
‘ghost guns’ – firearms without
serial numbers – and partially
finished firearm receivers that are
sometimes used to create these
unmarked firearms.
The Scott J. Beigel Unfinished
Receivers Act, named after the
New-York-born teacher who was
killed while trying to protect students
during the Parkland shooting,
would make it illegal to own
or sell an unfinished firearm receiver
without a gunsmith license,
according to a press release Friday.
The Jose Webster Untraceable
Firearms Act, named after a
16-year-old shot to death in the
Bronx in 2011, would prohibit the
sale and possession of ‘ghost guns,’
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defined by the bill as any firearm
without a registered serial number,
according to the press release.
Assembly Member Linda
Rosenthal, who sponsored the
Webster Act, thinks that these
two bills are vital to keeping New
Yorkers safe from gun violence,
she said.
“Technology has improved, and
it’s easier than ever to produce a
virtually undetectable weapon
capable of mass destruction with
little effort or expertise in the comfort
of your own home,” Rosenthal
said.
The unfinished receivers, typically
called 80% receivers, are not
legally firearms under the federal
Gun Control Act of 1968, but can
be finished with simple tools into
a working firearm without a serial
number for tracking, according to
the press release.
These ‘ghost guns’ make it easy
for a person to get an untraceable
firearm without going through
the background checks required
by law, said state Senator Brad
Hoylman, who sponsored the
Webster Act.
“Law enforcement officials are
speaking out, saying ‘ghost guns’
are a clear and present danger in
New York,” Hoylman said. “Yet
somehow, a loophole in federal law
means this is all completely legal.”
State Senator Anna Kaplan,
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who sponsored the Beigel Act,
thinks partially finished firearm
receivers are dangerous because
they let people get their hands
on unregistered and dangerous
firearms, she said.
“This loophole gives people an
end-run around our existing gun
safety laws, and it’s unfortunately
being exploited by people who
would otherwise fail a background
check,” Kaplan said.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed
banning the sale of unregistered
‘ghost guns’ by anyone other than
licensed firearms dealers in his
2020 State of the State agenda
Jan. 2. The proposal would also
prevent people forbidden from
owning a firearm from owning
any major parts of firearms.
“This common sense measure
would ban these untraceable guns
and require anyone who wants to
build their own firearm to come
out of the shadows once and for
all,” Cuomo said.
Assembly Member Charles
Lavine, who sponsored the Biegel
Act with Kaplan, thinks these
laws would help stem the flow of
untraceable guns into New York
communities, he said.
“If you want to own a gun in
New York, you need to go through
a background check, and that gun
needs to have a serial number.
Period,” Lavine said.
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