The 4 2025 NYC Mayor’s Race candidates: Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, independents former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and present Mayor Eric Adams, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.
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As New York Metropolis counts right down to Election Day on Nov. 4, town’s 4 fundamental mayoral candidates are vying for help in a comparatively packed common election.
From church visits to marketing campaign stops at a Brooklyn 5K race, right here is how every candidate spent their Sunday.
Mamdani wraps up ‘Big Fall Canvass’
Queens Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee who’s main the sector by a large margin in most polls, spent Sunday morning talking to congregants of Brooklyn’s Bethany Baptist Church.
Mamdani spoke of his love for New York Metropolis and the change he hopes to carry if elected to town’s highest workplace — rising rents and grocery prices, disproportionate police killings of Black New Yorkers, and better maternal mortality charges for Black moms than white moms, Mamdani stated, do “not feel like love.”
“Make no mistake, when we come to expect only apathy from the government that is intended to serve us, instead of change, that does not feel like love either,” Mamdani stated.
The mayoral hopeful alluded to President Donald Trump’s administration and condemned the federal authorities for cuts to healthcare and meals advantages.
“As your mayor, I will make it my responsibility to make life easier for working New Yorkers, the ones who are so often forgotten,” the Democratic nominee stated.
Mamdani spoke of his plans to freeze the lease on rent-stabilized flats, construct extra inexpensive housing, increase taxes on New York Metropolis’s wealthiest residents, and ship common childcare.
As Mamdani spoke to the congregants, his marketing campaign group ran an enormous canvassing operation dubbed “Big Fall Canvass,” trying to knock 1000’s of doorways and drum up extra help for the assemblymember. A Friday video from the marketing campaign titled “The Home Stretch Starts Now” known as on supporters to enroll in a canvassing shift.
Within the afternoon, Mamdani walked within the African American Day Parade in Harlem.
Cuomo talks Trump, ICE raids
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who’s working on an unbiased celebration line within the common election after dropping the Democratic major to Mamdani, spent Sunday delivering remarks at Salem Missionary Baptist Church, the Free Methodist Church of Bethlehem, and the Sikh Middle of New York.
At Salem Missionary, Cuomo mentioned gang and gun violence within the metropolis, rising costs, and threats from the Trump administration. He famous Trump’s crackdown on immigration enforcement and give attention to Democratic cities like New York, the place plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers have repeatedly detained people attending routine hearings.
The previous governor stated town must give attention to constructing extra inexpensive housing, hiring extra police, and enhancing public training “in every district in this city, not just the rich and the white districts.”
Cuomo cited his expertise as governor and beforehand as U.S. Secretary of Housing and City Improvement underneath President Invoice Clinton as proof that he could be an efficient mayor.
He closed by discussing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on town, which he stated “nearly killed us.”
“There was a silver lining for me through COVID, in that it gave me faith in our capacity to accomplish great things when we come together,” Cuomo stated. “If we could get through that, my friends, we can get through anything, and we’re going to take these challenges and make this city better than it has ever been.”
At Free Methodist, Cuomo once more mentioned affordability, security, training, and the Trump administration. The previous governor closed his congregation visits with remarks on the Sikh Middle of New York.
Quiet Sunday for Adams
Mayor Eric Adams appeared to have a quiet Sunday, with no public marketing campaign schedule or mayor’s schedule. His private account continued to publish on X about Mamdani, who’s main the mayor in most polls by over 30 factors.
In a Sunday publish to X, Adams wrote of Mamdani, “My opponent’s story is privilege and luxury,” with an accompanying graphic calling Mamdani a “product of wealth and elitism” who “Grew up with privilege and in intellectual elite circles.”
In a Saturday publish, Adams shared a cartoon showing to supply New Yorkers two decisions: With Adams, “Safety and affordability from a proven leader,” and with Mamdani, “false promises and dangerous policies from someone with no real experience.”
Adams has seen rising hypothesis concerning whether or not he plans to remain within the mayoral race by way of election day, as his odds of profitable a second time period seem more and more unlikely.
Sliwa campaigns at competition visits and Bay Ridge 5K
Republican nominee and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa stayed busy throughout town on Sunday, kicking off the morning with the Bay Ridge thirty seventh Annual Hoban 5K Run at Xaverian Excessive Faculty in Brooklyn.
The annual run is in reminiscence of NYPD officer Chris Hoban, who was killed within the line of obligation in October 1988 on the age of 26.
After his first marketing campaign cease, Sliwa headed to shake fingers on the final day of the San Gennaro Competition in Manhattan’s Little Italy. The Republican nominee left to marketing campaign on the Staten Island Greek Competition with Assemblymember Michael Tannousis (R-Staten Island) on the Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.
On Sunday night, Sliwa was set to go again to Little Italy to shut out the San Gennaro Competition earlier than taking a late-night radio interview on The Dominic Carter Present.
