Primary Day in N.Y.C.: Where the Races Stand

Weather: Sunny and dry, with a high in the mid-70s.

Alternate-side parking: In effect until July 4 (Independence Day).

Even as gloomy weather descended on New York, hundreds of thousands of voters cast their ballots on Primary Day.

The election offered the first major test of a new voting system and capped off months of campaigning in several city races. But winners will not immediately be called in many major contests, including the Democratic primary for mayor and the city comptroller race, with no single candidate getting more than 50 percent of the vote and ranked-choice selections yet to be processed.

Here’s a look at where the races stand (and you can follow all the results here):

Eric Adams is ahead. But results are far from final.

In initial tallies after Tuesday’s voting, Mr. Adams was in front among the Democratic candidates for mayor with nearly 32 percent of first-choice votes. He was trailed by Maya Wiley, with about 22 percent, and Kathryn Garcia, with more than 19 percent.

The three remained firmly optimistic on Tuesday night. But Andrew Yang, who was in fourth place at less than 12 percent, conceded. “We still believe we can help, but not as mayor and first lady,” he said with his wife, Evelyn, at his side.

As ranked-choice votes are tabulated, those standings could change, and absentee ballots also must be counted. It may be weeks before an official winner is named.

The eventual victor will face off in the Nov. 2 general election against Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, who handily won the Republican primary over Fernando Mateo.

[Read about the major takeaways from Primary Day, and check out neighborhood-level results.]

Alvin Bragg leads the Democratic race for Manhattan district attorney.

Mr. Bragg, a former federal prosecutor and deputy attorney general, was ahead in the Democratic primary for Manhattan district attorney, leading Tali Farhadian Weinstein by about three and a half percentage points. His platform was focused on police accountability and racial justice.

If his lead holds, Mr. Bragg would become the first Black person to lead the office. If Ms. Farhadian Weinstein pulled ahead, she would become the first woman.

The Manhattan district attorney’s race, which did not use the ranked-choice system, included eight candidates total.

[Looking for more information on the race? Here’s our full story.]

Other races were headed to ranked-choice tabulation.

In the contest for comptroller, a position that will play a significant role in the city’s economic recovery, Brad Lander, who was endorsed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was ahead in first-choice votes. He was leading Corey Johnson, the City Council speaker, by about nine percentage points.

The winners of many City Council races were also still undeclared. Several incumbents coasted to easy victories, but in most districts the current officeholder was not running, guaranteeing at least 32 different faces.

And finally: Who got Special Tony Awards?

The Times’s Julia Jacobs writes:

The Tony Awards, long delayed by the pandemic, announced on Tuesday the first recipients, including the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, an organization started five years ago by a group of actors and others as a tool to work toward dismantling racism through theater and storytelling.

The other recipients were “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” an intricately choreographed concert by the former Talking Heads singer, and “Freestyle Love Supreme,” a mostly improvised hip-hop musical that was created, in part, by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

These honors, called Special Tony Awards, were presented to three recipients that the Tony administration committee thought deserving of recognition even though they did not fall into any of the competition categories, according to a news release.

The recipients were announced more than one year after the ceremony had originally been scheduled to take place. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the ceremony was put on hold.

The awards show — a starry broadcast that will celebrate Broadway’s comeback — is now scheduled to air on CBS in September, when Broadway shows are scheduled to return to theaters in almost full force. Most of the awards, however, will be given out just beforehand, during a ceremony that will be shown only on Paramount+, the ViacomCBS subscription streaming service.

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Metropolitan Diary: Familiar sight

Dear Diary:

I was on an uptown No. 1 train. Across the aisle was a young man who looked to be in his early 20s. He had long, thick, curly red hair. There was a guitar case on the floor next to him.

We looked at each other and smiled. I got off at the next stop.

Around two months later, I got on another uptown 1. I sat down, looked up and saw the young red-haired man with his guitar case across the aisle and two seats away.

We looked at each other. His eyes widened in surprise and his face broke into a grin.

I’m sure I looked surprised, too, and I grinned, too.

In two stops, he got off the train. We were both smiling.

— Deametrice Eyster

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