Early voting in the mayoral election began on Saturday, and initial figures show smashed numbers from the last race and even the June Democratic primary when high voter turnout elevated Zohran Mamdani to victory.

By the end of Sunday, 164,190 New Yorkers had cast their ballot, a staggering figure for the first two days of the early voting. Brooklyn is currently leading the other four boroughs with 49,432, followed by Manhattan close behind with 49,191 votes cast. (The Bronx has the lowest number of early voters at 14,225.) By comparison, the June primary logged 66,361 early voters by the end of the second day while the

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