Commie corridor

The Commie corridor is a set of New York City neighborhoods, stretching from western Queens into western Brooklyn, that have consistently backed leftist and socialist candidates at the municipal, state, and federal levels since the mid-2010s. The term was coined in 2025 after the upset victory of Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary and the general election, in which these areas strongly supported him both times. The growing trend of left-wing politics in these neighborhoods has largely been attributed to rising costs of living, an influx of younger renters and immigrants with no attachment to the city's Democratic Party establishment, and sustained organizing by groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

Candidates associated with the corridor have generally run and won as Democrats, competing in Democratic primaries rather than as third-party challengers, with the DSA serving as the primary organizing force behind them. This region has been a core base of support for several socialists in the city, most notably representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and mayor Zohran Mamdani, and it has been speculated that it will shift the city further left in the future.