10/14/25

The General Election for Mayor, other city positions,  and ballot proposals is Tuesday, November 4.  

Here are instructions on how to register and vote: 

• If you’ve moved, the deadline to change your address at this link is Monday, Oct. 20. (If you miss the deadline, you can vote by affidavit ballot at the poll site for your new address.)
• If you’re not registered, Saturday, Oct. 25 is the registration deadline. The Board of Elections must receive a mailed online or emailed registration form by then. Register here: nyc/page/register-vote.
• Once registered, you can request a mail-in, absentee or accessible ballot here: vote.nyc. The deadline is Saturday, Oct. 25. After you have submitted a ballot application, you may check its status here.
• Early Voting starts Saturday, Oct. 25 and ends Sunday, Nov. 2. Find your Early Voting and/or Election Day voting site here: vote.nyc.
• If you have received a mail-in or absentee ballot, you can also return it in person to an early voting or Election Day site, or by mail (postmarked by Election Day Nov.4).

Also, there are six ballot proposals on the back of the paper ballot. 

• NYC Kids PAC recommends you vote NO on Props 2, 3 and 4, which would fast track housing development, while disempowering communities and the City Council in pushing for schools to be built where the schools are already overcrowded.

• In too many neighborhoods, schools are so overcrowded they are unable to provide space for the smaller classes required by law or able to offer other important educational programs and services. Already, there is too little emphasis in the city planning process on ensuring schools are built along with new housing.  Even when the initial agreement with the community includes new schools, too often they are built years afterwards or not at all.

Last but certainly not least, we will elect a new Mayor on November 4. 

• We urge you to vote for Zohran Mamdani because of his thoughtful and progressive positions on a range of education issues, as you can see from his responses to our questionnaire.

• On the NYC parent blog, there is also a useful comparison of the three remaining Mayoral candidates on several critical issues, including charter schools, class size and Mayoral control. Please take a look!

Again, be sure to vote! Our democracy seems more precious than ever before, when there are forces trying to take it away.