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Credit...Spectrum News NY1 & the NYC Campaign Finance Board The debate was spirited, at times fast-paced and occasionally awkward, with the eight candidates for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York engaging with one another in a virtual format that left little room for the usual onstage theatrics. Here are five takeaways: Image Credit...Dakota Santiago for The New York Times The topics of crime and police reform came up early, and quickly became the clearest line dividing the candid...

Five Things To Watch For In The First Official Mayoral Debate arrow City Hall Zack Frank / Shutterstock Eight of the leading Democratic candidates running to become New York City mayor are scheduled to take part in the first televised debate of the campaign season on Thursday, May 13th. Broadcast on NY1 and WNYC from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., the debate is the first of three that have been planned by the Campaign Finance Board. Eric Adams, Shaun Donovan, Kathryn Garcia, Ray McGu...

Andrew Yang, one of the leading candidates for mayor of New York City, faced backlash on Tuesday for a statement he published on Twitter in support of Israeli airstrikes on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. “I’m standing with the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists,” Yang wrote hours after Hamas launched a barrage of missiles from Gaza aimed at Jerusalem and other major cities. “The people of NYC will always stand with our brothers ...

NEW YORK — Do you know the median sales price for a home in Brooklyn? The question, which was recently posed to eight mayoral candidates by The New York Times editorial board, was not a trick. Brooklyn is a notoriously expensive borough in one of America’s most expensive cities, and New York City’s housing crisis promises to be a major issue in the coming years. Yet the range of responses given by two of the candidates — off by roughly an order of magnitude — has touched off increduli...

Santa Clara, Calif.: As a master of social work student, I have had the opportunity to work with vulnerable populations. Children are just one of these populations that I have become passionate about.

The controversy began after Yang tweeted on Monday that he was “standing with the people of Israel.”

Patch took a look at what the $100,000 guessed by two candidates as the median home price would actually get you. Hint — it's nothing.

Clockwise from top left: Scott Stringer, Maya Wiley, Raymond McGuire, Andrew Yang and Shaun Donovan (Getty) Only in a New Yorker’s wildest dreams does a home in Brooklyn cost $100,000. Someone had better wake up Shaun Donovan and Ray McGuire. When the two mayoral candidates were asked to estimate the median sale price of a Brooklyn home, that’s what they guessed. The correct answer is $900,000. With New York City’s expensive housing a key issue in the race, the New York Times editorial bo...

How The Democratic Mayoral Hopefuls Would Tackle NYC’s Rise In Shootings arrow This is part of our (subject line: One Issue Explainer) The recent shooting that injured three people including a 4-year-old girl in Times Square was the latest incident in a disturbing rise in gun violence in recent months. While the majority of the gunfire has been concentrated in Central Brooklyn, Upper Manhattan, and parts of the Bronx, it’s become increasingly random, striking diners at Peter Luger...

arrow A copy of Catcher in the Rye at the NYPL. Bebeto Matthews/AP/Shutterstock On June 22nd, New Yorkers will go to the polls to vote in a new type of primary, featuring ranked-choice voting. To help prepare for this new style of election, which asks the voter to order their favorite candidates from most preferred to least, weve been conducting simulations. Last week, we asked our readers to vote on their favorite New York City books from a list of candidates selected by the New ...