NYC Mayor Race Shows City at Odds Over How to Mount Comeback
- Andrew Yang, early favorite, pushed cheerful recovery vision
- As pandemic lifted, voters’ focus shifted to crime and trash
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When New York City mayoral hopefuls declared their candidacies last year, the U.S.’s most populous city was crippled by coronavirus restrictions and a bleak economy. But the race was turned on its head when vaccines arrived, Covid rates plummeted and New Yorkers grappled with an uncharted, uncertain reopening.
On Tuesday, voters will cast their ballots in a primary election that’s far more focused on the basics of governing and quality of life than the ideological battles over inequality that got term-limited Bill de Blasio elected mayor in 2013.