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Eight candidates for the top elected office in the city grappled with major challenges facing the Big Apple — from job loss and school reopenings to an ongoing spike in violent crime.

The debate featured a few fireworks, with the bulk of the attacks focused on Andrew Yang and Eric Adams.

May 13, 2021, 8:50 p.m. ETMay 13, 2021, 8:50 p.m. ET Nearly half of the city’s renters are rent-burdened, meaning that more than 30 percent of their income goes toward rent.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times The city’s housing crisis has become a key issue in the mayor’s race — and not just because two candidates, Ray McGuire and Shaun Donovan, were ridiculed this week after estimating that the median price of a Brooklyn home was about $100,000. (It’s actually $900,000). N...

Eight candidates spar over policing, recovery in virtual NYC mayoral debate Dartunorro Clark © Provided by NBC News The eight Democratic candidates running for mayor of New York scrapped Thursday evening over numerous issues, but their focus was largely on policing and economic recovery. It was the first debate before the June 22 primary in which the candidates could explain their visions to voters. Whoever wins that contest is likely to win in the Nov. 2 general election, giv...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The rising gun violence and threat to public safety dominated the first New York City mayoral debate between the eight leading Democratic contenders Thursday. As CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reports, the Democratic mayoral primary is just under six weeks away, and there are deep divisions among the contenders about whether to cut […]

The top contender to become New York City's next mayor outlined his pro-police position on Thursday during the ...

Stop and frisk hasn’t disappeared Bill de Blasio’s vocal criticism of the NYPD’s use of stop and frisk under then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg helped vault him to victory in 2013. In a city of a million issues, it became  the issue. Now Maya Wiley – de Blasio’s former counsel, who has many of his allies on her team – is hoping to make it an issue again, twice targeting Eric Adams for defending the tactic in the first official Democratic primary mayoral debate Thursday night. Adams,...

The crime spree, which began around 4:30 a.m. and left three commuters slashed and another battered, comes six days after a broad-daylight shooting in Times Square rocked the city — and the contest for mayor.

Rash of Subway Attacks Raises Worries With 24-Hour Service Set to Return Hours after mayoral candidates clashed over how to address crime in the transit system, the police reported a series of early-morning assaults. Police officers at the Union Square station in Manhattan this month. A spate of violent crimes on the subway has raised concern about how safe the system is. Credit...Gregg Vigliotti for The New York Times May 14, 2021Updated 5:50 p.m. ET In the span of 12 minutes early Friday, th...

Hours after mayoral candidates clashed over how to address crime in the transit system, the police reported a series of early-morning assaults.