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New York City saw a furious final weekend of early voting, with the candidates racing around the city as nearly three quarters of a million voters cast early ballots — including more than a quarter-million New Yorkers this Saturday and Sunday alone.
Among the take-outs from the nine days of early voting that are now concluded ahead of Election Day on Tuesday:
Brooklyn had the most early votes overall, while Manhattan had the biggest share of its registered voters turn out early. .
Newly registered voters, who helped power Zohran Mamdani to his primary win, turned out in droves to vote early in the general election — while voters who aren’t registered with a party were much less likely to do so than either Democrats or Republicans.
The immigrant-heavy neighborhoods of Jackson Heights, Washington Heights and Parkchester all had a lot of multigenerational families voting early, trailing only the Upper East and West Sides.
Read more here from THE CITY’s coverage of the campaign’s closing weekend, and read more here about THE CITY’s analysis of the early voting numbers.
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Mostly cloudy with a chance of afternoon showers, high near 59.
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In Upper Manhattan, overnight uptown 1 trains will skip 103 St, 110 St, 116 St, 125 St and 137 St. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
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It’s in effect today, Nov. 3.
By the way…
Tomorrow’s Election Day! Check out our voting guide before you head to the polls.
Our Other Top Stories
New Yorkers mourned two men — a building assistant who was trying to pump out a flooded basement and a Brooklyner who was trying to save one of his dogs — on Friday, a day after a torrential downpour caused widespread flooding across the city.
The City Council spent more than $1.5 million taxpayer dollars over the last month to blitz voters with mailers opposing Mayor Eric Adams’ ballot proposals that would limit the Council’s ability to control housing development — even though the use of public resources to promote political causes is strictly forbidden.
Trump’s budget director Russell Vought announced on X two weeks ago that he was immediately pausing infrastructure projects in several blue states across the country. But state officials, including in New York, remain puzzled about what — in anything — was actually frozen.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to tap into its reserves to partially pay for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which was set to run out of funding on Saturday. More than 1.7 million could lose access to food stamps if the ongoing shutdown stretches on. Read our guide on what you need to know.
Alex Brook Lynn, FAQ NYC’s original executive producer, rejoins the podcast to talk about the election, and how and why Paris — which has all the same big urban issues — has taken a different approach to providing things like affordable housing for working class people.
Reporter’s Notebook
We couldn’t help but notice that, for Halloween, a lot of New Yorkers took inspiration from our City Hall reporter being handed a wad of cash inside of a chip bag — specifically, Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chips.
In case you missed it, yes, one of Mayor Eric Adams’ top aides really did give a bag of chips to our intrepid reporter Katie Honan this summer, who later found the cash. We immediately handed it to federal investigators, who counted three hundred bucks inside.
Here are some of our favorite costumes this year inspired by the incident:
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