SHARE: As Kathryn Garcia, the former Sanitation commissioner, rises in the polls, there is hope among some establishment liberals that she can be the candidate who can stop the relatively moderate frontrunners, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and celebrity Andrew Yang. Since receiving the coveted New York Times endorsement, Garcia has gotten warm receptions at the Union Square greenmarket and on the Upper West Side. “Kathryn Garcia knows her shit,” Timewrote approvingly, likening her bid to be New York City’s first female mayor to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns. New York magazine later celebrated her in their approval matrix.