{"id":28191,"date":"2025-11-04T13:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28191\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:41:14","slug":"editorial-todays-election-is-about-more-than-the-next-nyc-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28191\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial | Today\u2019s election is about more than the next NYC mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A person cast their vote duing the first day of early voting in the general election in Brooklyn on Oct. 25, 2025. <\/p>\n

Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n

Today\u2019s your last chance to decide who will run New York City for the next four years<\/a>, but Election Day is much, much more than just the mayor\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

Your ballot includes several important races for City Council, the legislative branch of the city government, whose responsibilities include drafting bills, voicing their communities\u2019 concerns on a broader scale, and checking the mayoral power.<\/p>\n

There are several other races for judgeships in the state\u2019s Supreme and Civil Courts. These jurists are responsible for the proper, impartial administration of the laws of New York State in cases large and small, civil and criminal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then there are the ballot questions<\/a> \u2014 six in all \u2014 asking you, the people, to amend the state Constitution and the City Charter. The five City Charter questions are the most important and impactful for New York City (the first ballot question deals with land use in the Adirondacks, which isn\u2019t as big a deal here).<\/p>\n

Three of the ballot proposals, Questions 2-4, focus on land use and affordable housing. If approved with a yes vote, these questions will forever transform the process of reviewing major projects citywide, impacting both zoning laws and entire communities.<\/p>\n

The \u201cyes\u201d vote on Question 2, in particular, would reduce the land use review process in New York City, often as long as nine months, to just two or three months. It would also remove review powers from the City Council and toward independent panels made up largely of mayoral appointees.<\/p>\n

Another city ballot proposal, Question 6, would move all citywide elections for mayor, comptroller, public advocate, borough president and City Council to even-numbered years coinciding with presidential elections. Supporters argue that this effort would boost turnout and reduce operating costs; opponents contend that it would overshadow local races with future presidential contests.<\/p>\n

We will not advise you on how to vote on these questions. However, we advise you to research them before voting and make the decision that is right for you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We also advise you to ensure that you don\u2019t leave the voting booth without casting votes in every race, including the ballot questions, which are located on the back of the paper ballots you receive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carefully read the ballot, both the front and back, follow the instructions, and make your selections. The worst thing you can do is skip a vote on an important issue or contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person cast their vote duing the first day of early voting in the general election in Brooklyn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[433,14064,17652,17653,2043,17654,17655,17656,17657,14930,9877,3280,9,17658,56,63,65,64,12257,17659],"class_list":["post-28191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-affordable-housing","tag-ballot-questions","tag-city-charter-reform","tag-city-council-elections","tag-civic-engagement","tag-constitutional-amendments","tag-democracy-in-action","tag-election-reform","tag-judicial-races","tag-land-use-policy","tag-local-government","tag-mayoral-race","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-election-day","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-voter-turnout","tag-zoning-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28191","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=28191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}