High-Profile Race in Manhattan District Won’t Be Called Until Next Week
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The City Council special election pitting Lindsey Boylan, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, against Carl Wilson, a community activist, will go to a second round. Mr. Wilson had a substantial lead.
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If Ms. Boylan is elected, she would be the first straight person in decades to represent the Third District, which is home to a large L.G.B.T.Q. population and to many sites and institutions that are important to the community and its history. The 1969 Stonewall riots, which many view as the birth of the modern gay and transgender rights movement, took place within its bounds.
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