NEW YORK − Will the kid from Kampala ride a youth wave to City Hall? Can a dour former governor find redemption at the ballot box? And what's up with that guy in the beret? New Yorkers are swarming the polls in record numbers to choose between a historic first, a seismic comeback or a vigilante spoiler for mayor.

Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist in the state Assembly , would be the first Muslim mayor and first Asian American mayor of the nation's largest city. His nearest competitor is former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a centrist Democrat running as an independent. Republican Curtis Sliwa, who founded the anti-crime group the Guardian Angels, is a distant third in the polls.

In the Nov. 4 general election, voters will replace outgoing Mayor Eric Adams , wh

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