All 51 seats on the City Council will be up for grabs in November, and in nearly every district, there are multiple candidates competing in Democratic primaries. Eight races are for open seats, and the themes of many of these contests mirror the battles playing out at the mayoral level, with affordability a key issue.

Democratic New York City Council candidate and former Rep. Anthony Weiner failed on Tuesday in his bid to return to the political scene after a career plagued by scandal. Weiner was running against a menagerie of opponents in New York’s 2nd City Council district Democratic primary,

New Yorkers are braving the heat to cast their ballots in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary election, which is set to be a nail-biter between Democratic Socialist state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and former New York Gov.