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Good afternoon, New York City.

The mayor’s race unfolding here has captured presidential and international attention. It has exhilarated, enraged and exhausted New Yorkers. And now, the election on Nov. 4 is officially five weeks away.

For the homestretch, we are reviving The Sprint for City Hall, a limited-run newsletter series on this crucial race. I’m delighted to be your new host.

If we haven’t met yet — hi! I’m Katie Glueck. Usually I’m a national political reporter for The Times, covering the Democratic Party and its halting efforts to rebuild.

But I also love New York City politics. I helped lead our coverage of the 2021 mayoral election, and long before that I wrote about Anthony Weiner’s ill-fated but memorable 2013 mayoral bid. New York City politics, never boring.

I’m so glad to be back on the race for City Hall, along with a host of excellent reporters who have been covering every twist and turn.

We’ll be in your inbox twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, aiming to keep you up to speed, offer new analysis and fresh reporting, and also feature the lighter side of this wild, and wildly consequential, contest.

In this edition: What to make of Mayor Eric Adams’s exit from the race; how this election is reverberating across the nation; Nick Fandos on the most important question of the week; and a quiz that may trigger Mets fans.

• Candidates and donors are moving this week to capitalize on Adams’s departure from the race.
• Our polling expert Ruth Igielnik and I examined how the Adams coalition came to be, and who his remaining supporters may back now.
• This is how Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, helped galvanize South Asian New Yorkers, fueling a high-water mark for their political participation.
• Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee, is splurging on his six cats, according to his wife, Nancy. Catch up on other details of the candidates’ finances.
• Matt Flegenheimer may already have the headline of the week: “Swaggering, Scandalous, Strange: There Will Never Be Another Eric Adams.” Indeed.
• Here’s a refresher on some of Adams’s unique sayings and a deeply reported piece on how questions of character and corruption quickly overtook his administration.
• Do read Priya Krishna, who writes about food for The Times, on the biryani that made Mamdani forget his manners, as she examines how he built a campaign around food.

A crowded field thins out

If you’re just tuning in, here’s where things stand.

Polls show that Mamdani, a 33-year-old assemblyman from Queens, is the clear front-runner after he electrified a broad swath of New York Democrats with his emphasis on affordability and his buzzy, personality-driven campaign.