Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa (left), Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, and former Gov. and impartial candidate Andrew Cuomo.
Pictures by Lloyd Mitchell
On the final day of early voting within the 2025 NYC mayoral election, the candidates continued their last pitches for votes all through the town earlier than Election Day arrives on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
After a yr marked by intense debates, strategic endorsements, and a significant candidate’s withdrawal, the contentious mayoral race is drawing to a detailed with the upcoming announcement of the brand new mayor in simply two days.
In the meantime, candidates continued to marketing campaign all through the weekend, vying for each final vote. Right here is how every candidate spent the final day of early voting on Nov. 2.
Mamdani goes to church, Cuomo touts narrowing hole
Queens Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, began his Sunday with a call-in spot on WBLS 107.5 FM’s “Open Lines” present, giving him the chance to tout his bold marketing campaign to listeners. Like Mamdani, impartial candidate Andrew Cuomo began Sunday with a separate look on “Open Lines” as effectively.
After a morning of media appearances, the candidate delivered remarks on the First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem. He additionally zeroed in on one in all his key, and controversial, platform guarantees of a hire freeze in NYC.
“I will not only freeze the rent for more than 2 million rent-stabilized tenants, but I will also invest in new affordable housing to make homeownership a dream that is possible to live,” Mamdani mentioned to the group, who responded with resounding cheers.
The five-year NYS Meeting member wrapped up his Sunday campaigning at a canvass launch in Harlem.
“There’s no room for antisemitism in this city,” mentioned Mamdani, who has beforehand refused to publicly acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state and has been a frequent critic of Israel over the Gaza warfare. “It is a scourge that I would root out of the five boroughs as someone who would be leading the entirety of this city. I lead this city not just to lead Jewish New Yorkers who vote for me, but frankly any Jewish New Yorker and any New Yorker who calls this city home.”
In the meantime, the candidate’s workforce says it reached a milestone on Saturday by knocking on 103,000 doorways — probably the most ever by the workforce in a single day.
With solely two days till Election Day, Mamdani continues to be the frontrunner in polls.
He used the airtime to dismiss Mamdani’s guarantees of free providers, together with hire freezes and fare-free buses.
“None of it is reality. He’s very good on TikTok and social media and has great slogans like ‘freeze the rent.’ People think that means that he’s going to freeze their rent, and their rent won’t go up, but that’s totally untrue,” Cuomo mentioned. “The mayor has no legal authority to freeze the rent.” Nevertheless, the mayor does have substantial management over the impartial Hire Tips Board is the entity answerable for figuring out hire prices.
Turning to Washington, Bartiromo requested Cuomo if he would be capable to “work” with President Donald Trump, to which he responded that Democrats and Republicans don’t have to argue simply because they’re from completely different events.
“I think he would be open to a cooperative path that is doing good things in New York in cooperation with the federal government,” the previous New York governor mentioned. “I think he would like to see New York better. I want to appeal to that instinct first. If it becomes political, Democrat or Republican, like everything else down there, then that would be unfortunate.”
Cuomo is working as an impartial after shedding the Democratic major in June to Mamdani.
The candidate then headed to the Union Grove Baptist Church and Heavenly Imaginative and prescient Church, each positioned within the Bronx, earlier than assembly with different New Yorkers who had been making ready to solid their ballots on the final day of early voting.
Sliwa makes his rounds within the outer boroughs
Guardian Angels Founder Curtis Sliwa, who continues to be in third place within the race, continued his energetic and spirited marketing campaign by way of the outer boroughs and Manhattan.
Though he took a break from his signature meet-and-greets within the subway system, he began off sturdy on Sunday by campaigning in Borough Park, Brooklyn, alongside Republican NYC Council candidate Heshy Tischler. The pair met at Shloimys Bake Shoppe and visited varied native shops the place they spoke with prospects and staff.
Based on the New York Instances, Sliwa visited a store specializing in Judaica, the place he “briefly considered a red kippah to augment his iconic red beret.”
The candidate, famend for his street-level engagement with New Yorkers, was attributable to conclude the day by main a night strolling tour throughout Manhattan to attach with voters. He deliberate to begin at forty eighth Avenue and Sixth Avenue, then head to Instances Sq. and up seventh Avenue to 57th Avenue. He’ll wind down the engagement heading south on Ninth Avenue from 57th Avenue to 14th Avenue, passing by way of Hell’s Kitchen and Chelsea.
