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Sutton, the city’s first commissioner of veterans’ services, had struggled to raise cash and break ahead in this year’s strange primary season.

New York City's mayoral elections are usually big spectacles. They come during the most boring time in electoral politics, the year after the presidential election. The candidates can be press fodder (e.g. Anthony Weiner in 2013), and the winner will get to rule a city with a population of more than 8 million, more than most states.

Transportation Alternatives’s bold plan to claw back a quarter of the city’s public space from the domain of automobiles is already making waves in the mayoral race, with five top progressive candidates backing the safety and quality-of-life initiative. Others reacted tepidly or not did not return responses. Called “NYC 25 by 25,” the plan asks mayoral candidates to commit to dedicating 25 percent of the space now designated for vehicles — including 19,000 miles of roads and three million on-street parking spaces — as space for people by 2025 so that New Yorkers might have room to...

A Woman Mayor In NYC Is More Viable Than Ever, Even If There Is Not A "Women’s Vote" arrow Maya Wiley, Kathryn Garcia, Loree Sutton and Dianne Morales on Zoom for various mayoral forums. Chicago may be the Second City, but it beat New York by four decades and counting when it comes to electing its first woman mayor. Voters did it again in 2019, electing Lori Lightfoot, the second woman, first openly lesbian, and third Black mayor in that city’s history. Across the country 27 of the largest American cities have women serving as their chief executives. New York City has had ...

New York City’s next mayor must lead the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic while tackling contentious issues like police accountability, homelessness and educational equity