Tuesday marks Election Day 2025 in New York City, and the mayoral race between Democrat Zohran Mamdani, independent Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa is coming down to the wire.

After record-breaking early voting turnout, polls opened at 6 a.m. Tuesday across the five boroughs. Polls will stay open until 9 p.m. citywide.

As of 3 p.m., the City Board of Elections reported 1,451,942 voter check-ins, including the 735,317 who checked in during early voting. So far, Brooklyn has the highest voter turnout, followed by Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, in that order.

Three poll sites in Manhattan were targeted with threats on Election Day, but voting was not impacted, police sources said. Several polling locations across New Jersey also received threats early Tuesday morning. 

In addition to the mayor's race, New Yorkers are also voting for several other local offices and six ballot proposals. 

Mamdani, Cuomo and Sliwa on final day of NYC mayoral race

Leading the Democratic ticket is Mamdani, a 34-year-old Queens assemblyman who could become one of the youngest mayors in city history and the first Muslim mayor of New York. 

Since his stunning primary victory, Mamdani has consistently polled ahead of the pack, though some recent polling showed Cuomo narrowing the gap. 

Mamdani and Cuomo both visited polling sites Tuesday morning to cast their ballots in the final hours of the campaign. Sliwa already cast his during early voting.

"It is time to finally respond with the urgency that New Yorkers deserve -- an urgency that reckons with these same New Yorkers having had to face rent hike after rent hike year after year. These same New Yorkers having to wait for buses that never come. These same New Yorkers that have to move out of this city when they want to raise a family," Mamdani said outside his polling location in Astoria, Queens, where he voted alongside his wife. 

Cuomo said the high voter turnout is a good sign, adding, "It's not over until it's over."

"I feel the momentum is on our side. If you watch the polls, they've all been moving to us. I've been on the street. I feel it from people," Cuomo said, as he voted alongside his family in Manhattan. 

"As I've traveled the five boroughs, 350 neighborhoods and, obviously, in the suburbs every day, I'm excited by the fact that people have been revived to understand that they have a right to vote and they need to exercise the vote," Sliwa said at an appearance with his wife on the Upper West Side.

• Watch: NYC mayoral candidates make their final arguments

Voters in Rego Park, Queens, said they were ready to do their civic duty.

"You're an American, you live here, vote!" one person said. 

"I think it's very important. Your voice has a sway in the regulating of your state, of your borough," said another person. 

"It's a hard decision to make, who to vote for," another person added. "I'm still a bit undecided, but I'm going anyway, and I'll make up my mind."

NYC mayoral election draws national attention

Election Day comes on the heels of President Trump's latest attempts to sway voters in the race. In a social media post Monday, the president urged New Yorkers to vote for Cuomo, saying he's the strongest choice to defeat Mamdani.

"It's going to be hard for me, as the president, to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a communist running New York, all you're doing is wasting the money you're sending there," Mr. Trump also said in a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday.

Mamdani seized on the president's decision to pick a side.

"When we think about how best to fight Donald Trump, one way we can do so is by understanding Andrew Cuomo for what he is, the candidate endorsed by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Stephen Miller," Mamdani said.

The Trump endorsement can cut both ways -- hurting Cuomo by energizing those who don't like the president and helping him get Republicans to abandon their party's nominee, Sliwa. 

Cuomo saw it as a plus.

"Donald Trump, his message was simple. He opposes Zohran Mandani, and he's saying that a vote for Sliwa is a vote of Mamdani, which is true," Cuomo said. "The president is nothing if not pragmatic."

And while Sliwa insisted he doesn't need Trump because he has the people behind him, he couldn't resist just one more jab at Cuomo.

"Andrew Cuomo needs to go back, hide under his rock out in the Hamptons with his billionaire friends who have left really a stench over the city of New York -- divisive, derogatory, no hope, no future. You just don't feel good when you listen to the guy," Sliwa said.

Trump's threat to cut aid to New York City if Mamdani wins has become an issue of who has the backbone to stand up to him.

"I will treat his threats as they deserve to be treated, which are the words of a president and not necessarily the law of the land," Mamdani said.

Cuomo touted his prior experience with the president.

"My record with President Trump is 100% clear. I was governor, he was president. No one fought for New York more forcefully against President Trump than I did. We had battle royale, many of them, and if there's anyone who can protect New York against President Trump, it's me," Cuomo said. "If Zohran Mamdani were mayor, Trump would go through him like a hot knife through butter. He wouldn't even ... he would just step over him," Cuomo said.

What else is NYC voting on this Election Day 2025?

While most eyes will be on the mayoral election, New Yorkers will also vote for public advocate and comptroller in citywide races. Depending on where you live, you might also be deciding on borough president, City Council members, judges and other local officials.

In the race for public advocate, Democrat Jumaane Williams is looking to keep his seat, facing independent Marty Dolan and Republican Gonzalo Duran. 

The comptroller's race is wide open, with Brad Lander not seeking reelection. Those candidates are Manhattan Borough President Democrat Mark Levine, independent Ismael Malave Perez and Republican Peter Kefalas. 

Once you flip over your ballot, there are six proposals on the back. Most of them deal with affordable housing and development approvals. 

• Proposal 1 would allow an Olympic sports complex on protected land upstate in Essex County, where the winter games were once held. 
• Proposals 2 through 4 deal with housing -- speeding up affordable housing approvals, easing rules for smaller projects and creating a new appeals board that could override the City Council on some developments.
• Proposal 5 would require the city to create one digital, consolidated map for city planning. 
• Proposal 6 would unify local elections with presidential election years -- but, it would still need state approval to go into effect.

Each of these proposals asks for a "yes" or "no" vote. 

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