{"id":211930,"date":"2026-04-27T23:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211930\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:33:19","slug":"voters-head-to-polls-for-special-election-in-district-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211930\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters head to polls for special election in District 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan voters from Greenwich Village to Hell\u2019s Kitchen will head to the polls Tuesday to select a new City Council member.<\/p>\n<p>The special election fills the vacant seat for Manhattan District 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The district is home to several historical sites in the gay rights movement, including the Stonewall Inn. In recent years, the district has been represented by an LGBTQ lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Legislative aide Carl Wilson, who is openly gay, hopes to continue that tradition. Wilson has the support of Council Speaker Julie Menin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani surprised some political observers when he endorsed Lindsey Boylan, a straight woman who accused former Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Two local community activists who are also vying for the seat: Layla Law-Gisiko and Leslie Boghosian Murphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan voters from Greenwich Village to Hell\u2019s Kitchen will head to the polls Tuesday to select a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[109,25,75,9,24,12,63,87,380,134,136,135,27],"class_list":["post-211930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}