“What are we going to do now?” – The Clash

There is strange detritus littering the campaign trail in the battle for City Hall this election season, as well as some odd characters. A Bill de Blasio imposter even briefly captured the spotlight in a race that has had three improbable candidates in its final weeks: a charismatic young assemblyman whose name is routinely mangled, a former governor who is seeking redemption after resigning in disgrace, and the beret-wearing founder of a vigilante group who feels like he burst out of a 1970s comic book.

For the first time in many political generations, an incumbent one-term mayor is sitting it out. Eric Adams scored a legal victory when the Trump administration dropped federal corruption charges against him in April, but it became a political k

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