This Tuesday is election day in our city.
Polls opened at 6 a.m. in all five boroughs, giving voters one last chance to cast their ballots in this year’s election.
Attention is focused on the elections for the Municipal Council, with the 51 seats on the ballot, after the different districts were redesigned last year after the 2020 census.
Three district attorneys are also running for re-election in Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island.
Voters will also decide on two statewide ballot measures regarding debt limits.
Some races for city council seats are particularly close.
Such is the case of District 43 in Brooklyn, an Asian-majority area that encompasses parts of Sunset Park, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Gravesend, and whose seat has no predecessor.
There, Democrat Susan Zhuang faces Republican Ying Tan and conservative Vito LaBella.
Also in Brooklyn, Bay Ridge and Coney Island have been demarcated into a new district.
Thus, current councilors Justin Brannan, a Democrat, and Ari Kagan, a Republican who was previously a Democrat, face each other for the new 47th district.
In the northeast Bronx, incumbent Democratic Councilwoman Marjorie Velázquez must defend her seat against her Republican challenger Kristy Marmorato.
And in northeast Queens, Republican Vickie Paladino is again running against Democrat Tony Avella, who lost in 2021 by just under 400 votes.
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