SAC.New Yorkers are scrambling to get their hands on it — the New York Post’s explosive cover on Zohran Mamdani’s shocking election win vanished from newsstands within hours, and now copies are popping up on eBay for eye-watering prices. What’s in this headline-making front page that has the city buzzing?
Even the lefties love it.
The Post’s Nov. 5 front page featuring mayor-elect Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has gone the way of capitalism, selling out of newsstands in the Big Apple and even being auctioned off on eBay for more than $350 a pop.
The red-hot issue reporting Mamdani’s Election Day victory was the talk of the town Wednesday and flew off the shelves before many New Yorkers could get their hands on one.
“The artwork is genius. It’s a shock factor,” Mamdani voter Ben D. told The Post about the cover featuring a Soviet-style sketch of Mamdani carrying a hammer and sickle alongside the headline “The Red Apple.”
Ben, 24, and his 28-year-old pal Joaquin R. raced around Brooklyn to about a dozen delis, but everywhere they went was already sold out.
“We love Zohran. I think it’s a very important moment in our lives. It would have been amazing to have the paper to capture this moment in time,” said Ben.
“It’s only going to be printed once. [We’ve] been to at least 10 delis and we will go to more,” Ben said from Nassau Finest Deli in Greenpoint.
The deli opened at 6 a.m. and within an hour had already sold all their copies of The Post, according to worker Aaron Saleh.
Went to two gas stations by me that I know carry the post and bought all the copies for friends who asked— Aaron Ghitelman (@Ghitelman) November 5, 2025
Saleh, 33, said his phone has been ringing off the hook all day with callers asking if they had any more copies of The Post – and customers also traveled from Bushwick and Long Island City.
“We sold all the papers we had. There were like 100 people in here today asking for it. About 30 people called asking if we had it,” said Saleh, who also admired the issue, calling it “amazing.”
A similar scene played out in City Fresh Market in Astoria as customers wiped out their supply of Post’s as other newspapers remained untouched.
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“People come in, they will look through the pile. When they see there is no more (of the New York Post) they just leave,” a worker said.
A woman, Sharon, walked into City Fresh Market Wednesday looking for the coveted cover.
“I went to two other delis before this but they didn’t have any either. The other ones (front covers) are boring,” she said.
The demand was so high at one Bedford-Stuyvesant bodega that the store was forced to put up a “No NY Post” sign, according to a photo posted to X.
And the buzz reached beyond the five boroughs.
In Bergen County, New Jersey, resident Chiquita Wilder said she visited five different stores before 10 a.m. Wednesday – and still returned empty-handed.
“This is a good time capsule,” the 24-year-old Mamdani voter said.
“I think that being able to get your hands on a copy of this issue is just a good thing to look back on [in] a couple of years, just to see how things have changed in this new era – and being able to see how far either how far we’ve come or how badly this whole operation has backfired.”
“It’s also just plain funny,” Wilder continued. “I like seeing how ridiculous they are.”
A secondary market swiftly cropped up Wednesday, where online resale prices of the iconic woods ballooned into the hundreds.
One eBay seller auctioned off a copy for a whopping $355.
Another eBay seller – who has peddled other Post covers from the likes of Charlie Kirk’s assassination to Trump’s Yankees bid – has already sold out of two dozen copies priced at $14.25 each before 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.
But readers still on the hunt need not fret the lack of issues available, as the New York Post store is selling the cover.
