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On Monday afternoon, a group of ghosts from an administration past gathered in a 28th-floor conference room at former First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro's legal offices in Midtown, only to reveal that the haunting of New York City has really begun.
It was the first so-called public meeting of the latest charter revision commission, a legally questionable panel of Eric Adams loyalists, including Mastro himself, that the former mayor threw together in his last hours in office. Their task: to consider a ballot proposal that would have New Yorkers voting on whether to fundamentally change the way the City's primary elections are run.
The lighting was harsh, the audio was patchy, the room looked cramped, and the meeting lasted all of seven minutes. But the panel still asserted its continued existence, if not its legitimacy.