Shakia Emanuel was feeling anxious on the eve of the election. 

“Everybody’s in a rage right now over this election, so we’ll see what happens,” she said. 

She told us she works on Fifth Avenue where stores were boarded up ahead of the big night. 

“Whoever wins, I don’t understand. It’s like you’re in the middle of a war right now,” Emanuel added. 

Emanuel is one of the many New Yorkers closely watching the presidential election.

“I have a little bit of jitters. It’s going to be pretty exciting to see what goes on,” said one New Yorker. 

“Its kind of like watching a sports game or something. You don’t really want to see what’s going on,” said another. 

Adam Abou-Gad will also celebrate his birthday on Election Day. He wishes for positive change after this years race.

“I just feel like there’s more risk, socially, politically. There’s more risk the way things are currently with COVID, the lives that have been lost,” he said. 

Election Eve also means a final push to get to the polls. Some New Yorkers took part in a get out the vote caravan Monday night through Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, East New York, Flatbush, and Crown Heights. 

“We know in these communities some underserved marginalized people that honestly have a validated distrust in government — we wanna show them that people like ourselves people, like the brothers and sisters you see out here, believe that voting matters,” said caravan coordinator Marlon Rice. 

Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Election Day.