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NEW YORK – New York City is deciding between Mark D. Levine, Peter Kefalas and Ismael Malave Perez in the race to serve as the city\u2019s chief financial officer, the comptroller.<\/p>\n
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine won the Democratic nomination. He is favored over Republican Peter Kefalas, according to 270towin.<\/a><\/p>\n Track live NYC comptroller results here What does the NYC comptroller do? <\/p>\n The New York City comptroller oversees the city\u2019s finances \u2014 managing its $100 billion-plus budget, auditing city agencies, reviewing contracts, and monitoring the city\u2019s pension funds. The Comptroller also acts as a financial watchdog, ensuring that taxpayer money is spent efficiently and transparently.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s field included Levine, a Democrat and current Manhattan borough president; Kefalas, who ran on the Republican and Conservative lines; and Malave Perez, representing The Unity line.<\/p>\n Current Comptroller Brad Lander did not seek re-election after completing his term.<\/p>\n Watch live election night coverage <\/p>\n The Source: This article uses reporting from The New York Post, New Jersey Monitor and results from the Associated Press.<\/p>\n The Source: This report is based on information from the Associated Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n Election<\/a>2025 election for NYC mayor<\/a>Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK – New York City is deciding between Mark D. Levine, Peter Kefalas and Ismael Malave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2659,9,24,12,63,3334,87,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-28969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-election","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-mayor-2025","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28969","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=28969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}