Meet Moishe Indig, the Rabbi Who's Friends With Everyone Who Matters in NYC Politics

In case you haven't noticed, we just updated the Table of Success for the final time, with a few key new additions to our rolodex of Mayor Eric Adams's inner circle of confidants and allies. Rabbi Moishe Indig is one of those additions: He's been a power player in Brooklyn for more than a decade, and endorsed Adams in the primary in 2021. But where he stood by the end of the 2025 mayoral race might surprise you—so read on to find out, or check out his entry here.

Seven months after the New York City Department of Transportation installed a protected bike lane on Brooklyn's Bedford Avenue, Rabbi Moishe Indig, a prominent member of Williamsburg's Satmar Hasidic community, wanted the portion of it running through his neighborhood gone—and had summoned the mayor of New York City to hear out the case against it. 

At a May 2025 town hall meeting in his neighborhood, Indig shared his concerns about the bike lane: that cyclists were endangering Hasidic children, and thus the portion of the lane running between Willoughby Avenue and Flushing Avenue needed to be destroyed. Data collected by the DOT found that the bike lane was working as intended—injuries for bikers and pedestrians decreased along the entire protected bike lane. In fact, between Dekalb Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flushing Avenue in South Williamsburg, they dropped a whopping 47 percent from the previous year.