By
ANDY NEWMAN
Illustration by Randy Jones
After a contentious campaign, mayoral candidates face the voters.
Updated 8:45 a.m. | Like it or not, New Yorkers will have a new mayor very soon.
Today is your first chance to have a say in the process.
After a
bruising, circuslike primary race, it’s time to vote.
For Democrats, the field is led by the public advocate, Bill de Blasio; the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn; and William C. Thompson Jr., a former comptroller.
The Republican front-runners are a former transit chief, Joseph J. Lhota, and the grocery magnate John A. Catsimatidis.
Voters will also pick their party’s candidates for
comptroller,
public advocateand
other offices. (You must be registered with a party to vote in the primary.)
We asked The New York Times’s City Hall bureau chief, David W. Chen, what to look for over the day.
“If turnout is really heavy in brownstone Brooklyn and the Upper West Side, then that’s probably a very good sign for de Blasio because he’s doing very well there,” Mr. Chen said.
