NYC Mayoral Candidates Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa.
Pictures by Jonathan Portee
Early voting begins this weekend within the vital 2025 NYC mayor’s race between Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, impartial candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.
One among these three males, as soon as all of the votes are counted on Nov. 4, will turn out to be the 111th mayor of New York Metropolis on Jan. 1. New York News sought to interview all three candidates in an effort to inform readers of the alternatives — giving them a way of what every candidate stands for, and the type of chief they hope to be at Metropolis Corridor the following 4 years.
For every interview, New York News introduced collectively a workforce of editors and reporters from this publication and different citywide shops in Schneps Media, our guardian firm, to satisfy with the candidates individually. Forward of every assembly, the workforce formulated a slate of questions on a wide range of subjects starting from broad points impacting New Yorkers daily (similar to affordability and public security) to subjects targeted on a particular candidate and their {qualifications}.
The interview workforce included New York News’s Editor-in-Chief Robert Pozarycki, Senior Political Reporter Ethan Stark-Miller, Transit Editor Barbara Russo-Lennon and Police Bureau Chief Dean Moses; Schneps Media Exterior Editorial Director Richard Esposito and Chief Content material Officer Bobby Hankinson; Brooklyn Editor-in-Chief Meaghan McGoldrick; Bronx Bureau Chief Lesley Cosme-Torres; and Reporters Shane O’Brien, Florencia Arozarena and Jonathan Portee.
Our interviews had been performed at impartial websites inside Manhattan between Sept. 20 and Oct. 8. Not one of the candidates knew the questions upfront. To guarantee essentially the most candid solutions, the interviews had been recorded for note-taking functions solely.
We thank the Cuomo, Mamdani and Sliwa campaigns for his or her cooperation in serving to to make these interviews occur.
The abstract tales New York News printed during the last week supply a glimpse into every candidate’s model, private beliefs and imaginative and prescient for the town’s future. We urge you to learn them via and take into account every candidates’ solutions earlier than heading to your early voting website between Oct. 25 and Nov. 2, or your polling place on Nov. 4, to solid your vote on this all-important election.
Who will probably be our subsequent mayor? (Click on hyperlinks beneath to learn)
Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani says he’s making ready to guide, however isn’t taking something without any consideration
Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa on crime, cats and a marketing campaign he’ll by no means stop
Unbiased candidate Andrew Cuomo leans on his expertise in pursuit of political comeback
The best way to vote
To search out your early voting website or Election Day polling place, go to vote.nyc. The mayoral race will probably be on the prime of the 2-page paper poll you’ll obtain while you vote. Don’t neglect to flip the ballots to vote on different essential races, together with six totally different poll questions.
A pattern poll for the 2025 NYC Mayor’s Race. The mayoral candidates are on the prime of the primary web page.NYC Board of Elections
