The frontrunner in the race to be speaker of the New York City Council secured new union endorsements on Monday in the first sign of potential hedging on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Julie Menin, a Democrat representing Manhattan’s Upper East Side, is a Jewish, pro-Israel moderate, who could counterbalance the self-described democratic socialist and staunch Israel critic in city government. Menin declared on Wednesday that she had a supermajority  of support on the 51-seat council ahead of the