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New York City voters will elect a new mayor on Tuesday, as two well-known Big Apple names strive to beat a relative newcomer, Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist whose sudden political ascendance has drawn attention nationwide.
Mamdani, the Democratic Party nominee, is facing off against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a longtime Democrat running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa, founder of Guardian Angels.
The winner will replace New York’s scandal-plagued mayor, Eric Adams, who dropped out of the contest in late September.
Mamdani, a state Assemblyman now in his third term, defeated the 67-year-old Cuomo in a stunning upset in June’s Democratic ranked-choice primary.
