03/11/2025
This morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge toward City Hall in Manhattan. Just like this campaign, when we launched in October over a year ago, I began with only a few people by my side.
But the banner we carried told a story that we have always known to be true, even when we were polling at 1%: Our Time Is Now.
And as the first signs of light began to emerge over the horizon, more and more people joined us — canvassers, labor leaders, working people and elected officials — until we were a movement, marching toward City Hall.
New York deserves a Mayor up late and up early, who works as hard as the people of this city. It deserves a City Hall that’s not only be a beacon of light once the sun has risen and illuminated it from the exterior, but which makes government a light of its own, that people across this city feel at all hours of this day.
I cannot do this alone. Election Day looms. More than 735,000 New Yorkers have already voted, and countless more will decide tomorrow what kind of leadership they want to define the next four years.
Every voter will consider something different, but ultimately the question before us all is very simple: morning versus night.
Do we want it to be morning in New York again, where we feel the warmth of the sun on our skin and the possibility inherent to every new day?
Or do we want to shiver in the night cast by a politics of fear and self-enrichment?
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Polls are open 6am to 9pm on Tuesday, November 4.
