After a week of high profile endorsements, including the one from the Teachers’ Union, mayoral candidate and city comptroller Scott Stringer kicked off the weekend with a rally of supporters in front of City Hall.


What You Need To Know

  • City Comptroller Scott Stringer has held elected office for almost three decades

  • Newcomer Andrew Yang is offering voters drastic change

  • Yang and former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia met at an Upper West Side event

  • The mayoral primary is on June 22

“Ready on day one, someone who has a progressive vision, but has the skills to bring our city back from our greatest challenge," Stringer said. "And the coalition that we have today is unlike any coalition in this campaign. And that’s what wins these elections.”

Stringer has held elected office for almost 30 years.

Leading the polls, however, is entrepreneur Andrew Yang, whose 2020 presidential run was his first foray into politics.

“I ran a small business in New York City and if you run a small business in New York, you know you have to deliver day in and day out, that people don’t care about anything but results, they don’t want excuses, they don’t care about politics, and that’s the kind of leadership that we need in New York right now,” Yang said.

Yang bumped into one of his Democratic primary rivals at an Earth Day event on the Upper West Side: former Sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia, who despite her experience in government, is polling in the single digits so far.

“I look at the polls and I see a huge number of undecideds,” Garcia said. “This thing is wide open.”

In the meantime, in Sunset Park, mayoral candidate and non-profit executive Dianne Morales attended the inaugural ceremony of Assembly member Marcela Mitaynes, who last year made history as the first Peruvian-American to win a seat in the State Legislature.

“I think I see myself in a lot of women of color, Latinas in particular, who tend to be underestimated and erased and left out of the Democratic electoral process,” Morales said.

Trying to connect with voters in Bed-Stuy this Saturday, was mayoral candidate and former de Blasio counsel Maya Wiley.

“At the end of the day, people are going to decide who they want as mayor because they know who we are,” Wiley said.

And also in Brooklyn, bank executive Ray McGuire greeted New Yorkers, promising change as well.

“We are here to make sure that we have an impact on the course of history. And what we bring is a change, bring something different,” McGuire said.

Candidates Eric Adams and Shaun Donovan took a break from the campaign trail this Saturday.