November 4, 2025
Election Day voter turnout this afternoon in Inwood appeared to be fairly heavy. Early voting was also heavy this year: more than 700,000 check-ins versus fewer than 200,000 in 2021. There was a brief (<5 minute) wait to get a ballot and all of the voting kiosks were occupied at one Inwood voting site the Gazette observed around 3PM. The actual ballot marking and scanning appeared to go quickly. Many locals were seen sporting “I Voted” stickers on this sunny and mild Autumn in New York day.
The biggest local contest was for the next NYC Mayor, of course. TV ads have been over the top during the past two weeks, with billionaire funded “independent expenditure committees,” leading the way with scary commercials intended to hurt Zohran Mamdani‘s chances of winning. Nevertheless, he’s led in every poll for weeks by double digits and so anything but a landslide win would be very surprising.
The Man Who Would Be Mayor.
What’s not surprising are the battle lines that have formed, with wealthy 1%ers burning millions of dollars to support the candidacy of Andrew Cuomo on one side, and tens of thousands of unpaid volunteers for Zohran Mamdani on the other. Evidently, just the thought of paying 2% more taxes to pay for working class needs such as child care and public transportation has these billionaires in a panic and so preventing it is worth a lot to them. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Bill Ackman, Ronald Lauder, William Lauder, Barry Diller Dan Loeb, Steve Wynn and Alice Walton are some of the Plutocrats who chipped in for the anti-Mamdani effort, according to a CNBC report. It said that Bloomberg alone spent more than $8 Million to stop Mamdani. Their ads have sought to connect Mamdani, who’d be be New York City’s first Muslim Mayor, to the attacks on the World Trade Center. Mamdani was 2 years old when the WTC was bombed in 1993 and 10 when planes brought it down in 2001.
Update: At a little after 9:30PM, WABC7NY called it. Zohran Mamdani is projected to be the next NYC Mayor. A late check of 2 Inwood voting sites by the Gazette found approximately 1400 and 2200 votes cast as of 8:55PM. A staffer at the site on Broadway reported that between 5:30 and 7:30 it got busy and voters spent up to 30 minutes on site.
