Thing is even if Zephyr Teachout and Cynthia Nixon both win, I’ve read Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, I know what happens when goo-goo “good government” reformers win against a New York machine

the machine operatives buried into the system slow-walk and sabotage your initiatives until your term is up as a failure and they can come back into power (and reward/punish appropriately)

Like the Arab Spring in Egypt, or Trump in DC