Mayor Eric Adams announced on Sunday he won't seek reelection after all, a sudden but not entirely unforeseen decision, in a race of surprises, for his long-moribund campaign.

Adams’ decision to drop out — with just weeks until the Nov. 4 New York City mayoral election — narrows the race to a contest among three candidates: the Democratic nominee, front-runner Zohran Mamdani , a state assemblyman; former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo , who’s running as an independent; and the Republican nominee, talk-show host and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.

In the announcement, a video that ran nearly nine minutes and that was recorded at Gracie Mansion and posted on X, Adams blamed "media speculation about my future" as well as the decision by the city’s Campaign Finance Board to withhold public

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