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New York City voters’ first major tryout of ranked-choice voting may be over, but now the work of tallying votes – including absentee ballots still yet to be returned – begins. As of late Tuesday night, few of the more than 300 candidates in three dozen open City Council districts were decisively declaring victory or conceding defeat.
While Council Members Carlina Rivera, Rafael Salamanca Jr. and Farah Louis were a few of the Democrats to face primaries as incumbents, those challenges weren’t particularly competitive and each of the incumbents swon easy victories. And a few new City Council candidates also won, with Democrat Jennifer Gutierrez and Republican Joann Ariola, who The New York Times declared as the winners in the 34th and 32nd Council Districts, respectively.
New York City’s primary election is June 22, but believe it or not, the voting actually begins in just a few days. There’s early voting this year, from June 12 to June 20, although you still have the option of casting your ballot on election day, if you choose to do so. Citywide the hotly […]
arrow Bayard Street in Chinatown. David Cruz
On a recent Wednesday morning, Chinatown appeared a bit more desolate than it did during pre-pandemic times For Rent signs hung on shuttered storefronts and outdoor dining annexes were nearly empty, all in sharp contrast to the strings of festive Lunar New Year lanterns hanging over the once-lively streets.
“It is likely to take a multi-year, multi-phase [recovery plan] to get back to 2019 level, much like the 1918 pandemic, which took a decade,” Wellington Chen, executive director of the Chinatown Partnership (which works to elevate the neighborhood s business community) told Gothamist/WNYC.
The neighborhood remains in the throes of economic despair, with even notable restaurants closing such as Jing Fong on Elizabeth Street, the neighborhood’s largest dim sum eatery that recently announced is permanent closure of its indoor dining hall.Looming over the economic pain is the recent spike of attacks against