Pressure is building on Columbia University to enact an official campus mask ban as Jewish alumni groups compare anti-Israel protesters hiding their identities to the Ku Klux Klan and elected officials, including Mayor Eric Adams, say they give cover to criminals.

The Queens state assemblyman said his plans for his socialist utopia involve subsidizing free transit and childcare with higher taxes on corporations and establishing city-run food stores, freezing rent for millions of New Yorkers and creating a new safety plan for the city.