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New York City mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia speaks to the media in Astoria, Queens in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Fight for battleground areas underway in mayor’s race, as new voting system upends norms
The weather is warmer, the pandemic restrictions are looser and New York City’s mayoral hopefuls have wasted no time closing their Zoom screens and hitting the streets to reach voters in person for the home stretch of the race.
They’re visiting shops along bustling thoroughfares in the Bronx, addressing parishioners at churches in Southeast Queens and lining up for pictures with children on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. But little ground has been so heavily