As early voting begins, the race for mayor is barreling to an ugly conclusion, marked by bigotry, bitterness, and broken friendships. Picking the next mayor was never going to be a smooth affair — this is a high-stakes power struggle, not a church picnic — but New Yorkers hoping for relief from the turmoil and scandal of the Eric Adams administration are going to be disappointed.

At the same time that ex-governor Andrew Cuomo was turning in a forceful and effective performance at the final televised debate of the campaign, his campaign released (and then quickly deleted) a disgusting, AI-generated video featuring a pimp, a drug dealer, a shoplifter, a domestic abuser, and a drunk driver all purporting to be “Criminals for Zohran Mamdani” and committing crimes as New York literally bur

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