Muslim voters in the Bronx were confident on Election Day that the Democrat will address issues of security, surveillance, and Islamic holidays
You see their names on every ballot—candidates you’ve not heard of from parties you may not have known existed. They run facing certain defeat. Ever wonder why?
Self-interest and civic spirit, friendship and suspicion, crisis and calm—all were on display at one polling place during the long day that was Election 2013.
City Limits will report on the final act of the citywide campaign, with a focus on Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Tony Gronowicz ran for mayor on the Green Party line knowing he would lose, but hoping to gather enough votes to force the major parties to pay attention.
If the atmosphere at Hostos Community College is any indication, the buzz around the Obama campaign has been followed by a whisper shrouding the 2013 mayoral race.
They’d focus on ending stop-and-frisk. At least that’s what one sampling of voters said into our Election Day microphone.
We wanted to hear a little of what people in one somewhat forgotten piece of Brooklyn thought about the candidates, the campaign and the city.
More than a hundred election districts changed their polling place after the September primary, leading to confusion and frustration for voters who said they were not informed.
Come Election Day, voters will decide whether to raise the retirement age of judges to deal with civil and criminal court backlogs. But nothing is being done for Family Court, which oversees New York’s most vulnerable.
