Good news: Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who dropped his White House bid last month, is seriously looking at a run for New York City mayor.

No, this isn’t a pre-emptive endorsement — of Yang or his “universal basic income” proposal — but gratitude for a potential breath of fresh air, on multiple fronts.

First, we see it as a sign of rising political engagement — and political confidence — in the city’s large Asian community. While New York has already elected one Asian American to citywide office, John Liu as comptroller in 2009, Liu’s 2013 mayoral bid was shut down by the Campaign Finance Board amid a fundraising scandal. It’d be fundamentally healthy to see a clean run.

And, of course, that community now feels threatened thanks to Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Richard Carranza, who have treated Asian American success in the city’s schools as a problem — even seeking to impose de facto racial quotas to reduce Asian enrollment in the city’s top high schools and even middle schools.

Then, too, New York could certainly use a mayor with a real business background. Yang also has experience in the nonprofit sector, and got his political feet wet in the 2020 primaries, where he stood up for capitalism on the stage against Bernie Sanders.

If nothing else, the mayoral race would be livelier if at least one top contender isn’t a career politician. Plus, of course, his campaign slogan was “MATH” — a perspective New York City government could sorely use.