The Mayoral Candidates Take Our Questions
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Next month, New York voters will be able to rank five choices from a list of eight candidates in the Democratic primary, which is likely to determine who the next mayor will be.
The New York Times asked the candidates how they would lead the city. Here’s what they had to say (with responses edited for brevity):
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What is the most important police reform you would pursue as mayor?
Eric Adams: Mr. Adams described a plan to have a “cross-section” of community leaders and organizations interview precinct commanders. “Because if you have the wrong fit, like we are witnessing over and over in communities with historical tension between police and communities, you’re not going to start the process of rebuilding trust.”
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Maya Wiley, left, paused during a walking tour at the Clemente Center in Manhattan on Friday to discuss public safety.Credit.Brittainy Newman for The New York Times
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On the day after the leading Democratic candidates for mayor faced off in the first major debate of the election season, Andrew Yang attended a conference on the future of the waterfront. Scott M. Stringer went to a vacant lot in Brooklyn to talk about affordable housing. Maya Wiley toured a Puerto Rican cultural center on the Lower East Side. Eric Adams attended fund-raisers, and Raymond J. McGuire greeted business owners on Staten Island.
the city home.
How can their quality of life be improved?
On Quality of Life Andrew Yang: What’s been holding back the development of affordable housing in New York City, which is that everyone’s for it in the abstract. And then when you say, hey, it’s coming to your district or community, then all of a sudden their enthusiasm heads the other direction. So when you talk about the will of the people, if you go to folks citywide and say, hey, you know, it’s clear that we’re short tens, hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units, like, do we want them built? The vast majority of New Yorkers will say, heck, yes. And so that to me is where we should be leading.