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Voter participation in the city, which once surpassed 90 percent, cratered in recent elections. Here’s a look at why it fell, and why this year has been different.

New Yorkers are flocking to the polls at the fastest pace in decades, with 1,748,698 votes recorded by 6 p.m. Tuesday, according to the city’s Board of Elections. That total includes about 735,000 cast during the early voting period.

Curtis Sliwa, the 71-year-old Republican, lives with six cats, wears a red beret and is making his second bid to become New York City mayor. Sliwa’s been a city fixture since the 1970s as the founder

In one of his TikTok videos/campaign ads, Zohran Mamdani (suit, tie, no helmet) unlocks a Citi Bike from an Upper East Side dock as someone off in the distance yells “Communist!” Without missing a beat he replies,

New Yorkers weigh in a mayoral race that has garnered national attention, while Virginia and New Jersey choose new governors.

Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa are vying to become NYC mayor, the chief executive of one of the biggest and most complicated cities in the world.