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Here's What You Need To Know About The Current NYC Mayoral Contenders arrow Barricades surround the entrance to New York City Hall in Lower Manhattan. Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock The race to succeed Mayor Bill de Blasio is heating up amid a wide-open field of mayoral candidates. New York City is facing historic challenges amid an unprecedented financial and public health crisis. Still, more than 30 people have registered to run for the city's top job—from political novices to veteran elected officials. Gothamist compiled a list of the current leading candidates, based...

New Yorkers are getting to know the candidates as disembodied heads, with almost no opportunity to compare how they look standing next to one another.

Will NYC mayoral candidates’ height matter in the age of Zoom? © Provided by New York Daily News Scott Stringer, on Zoom. Pandemic-era TV and Zoom campaigning makes it hard for voters to take full measure of New York’s mayoral candidates: You can weigh their words and assess their style, but you can’t tell how tall they are. There’s evidence height is a factor in voters’ choices. In presidential contests from 1789 to 2016, the taller candidate won the popular vote 62% of the time, said political scientist Gregg R. Murray, who called the stat “reasonable evidence that the physic...

SHARE: It took six months of Zoom parties, texts and phone calls to exes, but now that the latest filing deadline passed on Jan. 15, New York City candidates can finally show off the money they’ve been raising and spending. After a quick dig through the massive trove of hundreds of financial disclosures, here are some of the winners and losers. Winners Eric Adams & Scott Stringer: The Brooklyn borough president and the city comptroller are exactly where they need to be, at the top of the mayoral pack. Eric Adams has $6.7 million in the bank, and expects to bring in another $982,000 in match...

Monday's also marked the first time the candidates shared the same stage in front of an in-person audience, as the Democratic primary kicks into high gear during the strange era of coronavirus.