New Yorkers will head to the voting polls this year to cast their votes for a variety of official seats. But the one office everyone has their eye on is the mayor's race.

NY1’s full coverage, including FAQs, candidate interviews and key dates, is available here.

Here's everything that happened in the mayor's race this week.

This Week's Election Stories

1. Adrienne Adams attacks Cuomo over COVID, citing dad's death

Adrienne Adams said goodbye to her father in a hospital parking lot on Long Island. Two months later, he died from COVID-19.

That was the subject of a deeply emotional speech delivered by the Council speaker and mayoral candidate on Thursday, recounting her father Irvin Eadie's death from COVID five years ago.  

She used the experience to attack former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's leadership during the crisis.

"My father served his government with pride, but when he needed his government to serve him. It failed him," she said.

Read more from NY1's Courtney Gross here.

2. Where Mamdani gets support across the city

Julie Swoope and Arielle Schwartz are big supporters of mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Both have been living in Brooklyn for years, and both have been knocking doors for his candidacy.

They've also donated to his campaign. Swoope gave $388, while Schwartz gave $250.

They are two of thousands of donors supporting Mamdani. Far more people have contributed to his candidacy than any of the other top mayoral candidates as of the last fundraising filing in March.

A review of those donations by ZIP code by NY1 shows Mamdani has collected contributions from most ZIP codes across the city, but certain neighborhoods are more supportive than others.

Read more from NY1's Courtney Gross here.

3. Cuomo's first TV ad in race for mayor focuses on pandemic leadership

In his first television ad in the race for mayor, there was no mention of Andrew Cuomo’s opponents in the Democratic primary, or even President Donald Trump.

The ad focuses instead on Cuomo’s work as the state’s governor during the pandemic, with a narrator declaring, “He provided hope that we’d pull through this together.”

On the campaign trail, voters in Harlem have stopped the former governor on the street to thank him, and inside, Brooklyn churches have praised Cuomo’s work.

While other City Hall hopefuls have attacked Cuomo on his pandemic response, for some voters it’s the very reason they believe Cuomo should be the city’s next mayor.

Read more from NY1's Ayana Harry here. 

4. Mayoral hopefuls participate in UFT candidate forum

Class was in session on May 17 as the United Federation of Teachers held a mayoral forum. One by one, six of the Democratic primary candidates were pressed on their plans to better educate the city’s 900,000 public school students.

The powerful teachers union has yet to announce an endorsement in the race.

Traditionally, the UFT invites candidates vying for their endorsement to spend a day teaching in the classroom, but President Michael Mulgrew explained why the process changed this year.

Read more from NY1's Ayana Harry here.

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