The 2025 NYC Mayoral Candidates (clockwise, from high left): Mayor Eric Adams, Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani, Guardian Angels Founder Curtis Sliwa and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Pictures by Lloyd Mitchell, Dean Moses and Ramy Mahmoud
The 4 main candidates within the 2025 NYC mayor’s race spent Sunday greeting constituents, visiting companies and church buildings, and discussing native points which can be essential to New Yorkers.
Adams goes block by block within the outer boroughs
Mayor Eric Adams visited with small enterprise house owners, voters, and group members in Queens and Brooklyn throughout a day-long tour of the 2 boroughs. He walked by way of neighborhoods together with Brighton Seaside, Williamsburg, Jackson Heights, and Jamaica to champion his insurance policies aimed toward supporting native companies and group power.
On Fb, the impartial incumbent mayor zeroed in on his go to to Brighton Seaside.
“We’re going block by block today, visiting small businesses in Brighton Beach,” Hizzoner mentioned. “Small companies are the heartbeat of New York Metropolis. They create jobs, construct group, and maintain our neighborhoods alive. Once we assist them, we’re not simply serving to one retailer or one household; we’re lifting up your entire metropolis.
He additionally stopped by the Gujarati Samaj of New York in Contemporary Meadows, the place the group heart held a well being and wellness consciousness expo that centered on medical points essential to the South Asian group, together with coronary heart illness, most cancers and diabetes.
Cuomo visits church to talk to lots of of congregants in Queens
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke to greater than 400 congregants on the historic Larger Allen AME Church in St. Albans, Queens.
Cuomo, whose household roots run three generations deep in Queens, laid out his imaginative and prescient to revive security, affordability and alternative to New York Metropolis as he seeks election as mayor as an impartial candidate.
He began by noting a listing of issues in NYC, together with the mass exodus of residents to different states. Then, he laid out his options for making the town higher, zeroing in on jobs, training, public security, and housing.
“There is no way to reduce rents without building more housing — and that is a responsibility of city government,” he mentioned on the church. “But it hasn’t been happening. In New York City, it’s hard to get anything done.”
He spotlighted the Huge Apple’s 1% emptiness price in housing.
“That’s why landlords can charge whatever they want,” he mentioned. “My plan is to build 50,000 new units a year — starting in the first 100 days.”
He additionally touted his accomplishments as governor, together with the extension of the Second Avenue Subway and the reworked Kosciuszko Bridge between Queens and Brooklyn.
Mamdani visits cultural heart; talks free buses in interview
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee and Meeting Member representing components of Queens, visited the Christian Cultural Heart in East New York, Brooklyn, on Sunday afternoon. Congregants gave him a heat welcome.
“I come here today with appreciation, and I come here with a commitment that it will take all of us to transform the city that we love to embrace a vision of a place that all of us can afford, raise a family, and grow old,” he mentioned on the talking engagement.
He additionally posted on social media on Sunday his NBC New York interview about making NYC buses quicker and free. His interview got here out following a brand new report displaying toll and fare evasion value the MTA an estimated $1 billion in 2024.
Throughout the interview, he defined how paying – or not paying – fares can decelerate bus speeds.
“Unlike on the subway, when you pay your fare, you’re doing so on the bus,” he mentioned. “The act of doing so or not doing so, it impedes and impacts the ability of the bus to actually operate.”
The free bus platform isn’t new for Mamdani. In 2023, the meeting member spearheaded a year-long bus pilot program that briefly supplied free bus service on some strains all through the town. Funding for the pilot, which had blended outcomes, got here from the NYS 2024 finances.
Sliwa attends the Holocaust Memorial Remembrance Day Ceremony in Brooklyn
In the meantime, Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee candidate within the race who campaigns every day within the subway system, attended the Holocaust Memorial Remembrance Day Ceremony in Brooklyn.
The closely attended occasion was held at Holocaust Memorial Park at Shore Boulevard and Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay. Sliwa mentioned the horrific occasion that resulted within the slaughter of six million Jewish folks, and others, from 1933 to 1945.
On the Holocaust Memorial Park’s Annual Remembrance in Sheepshead Bay, we honor survivors and vow by no means to neglect,” he mentioned.
He additionally mentioned his youngsters had been by no means given classes concerning the Holocaust in class.
“As mayor, I will mandate Holocaust education in the NYC public school curriculum so every student learns what happened,” he mentioned. “It is disgraceful that my three children went through school without ever being taught. That ends when I am mayor.”
The candidate additionally celebrated the opening of his new Brooklyn marketing campaign workplace on Flatbush Avenue. On Sunday night, Sliwa was because of go to the San Gennaro Pageant in Manhattan.
