Overview
- PIX11’s pre-election interview shows Zohran Mamdani emphasizing schools and a mixed safety approach, proposing 1,000 new teachers a year and keeping roughly 35,000 officers while expanding homeless outreach and mental-health staffing.
- Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams’ late move to add thousands of officers has become a flashpoint that the candidates use to draw contrasts on public safety.
- Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, escalates attacks on Mamdani’s ideology, pushes for more police on the beat, and urges Republicans to back him as he argues Sliwa cannot win.
- GOP City Council member Inna Vernikov publicly breaks from Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, saying her goal is to defeat Mamdani.
- Curtis Sliwa intensifies a subway-centered, quality-of-life campaign and continues sharp attacks on both rivals, even as President Donald Trump dismisses his bid.