UPDATE: Tuesday, November 5 at 6:30 p.m.: There was a wave of additional voters on the Upper West Side after working hours on Tuesday. West Side Rag visited four polling sites from West 71st to 94th streets between 5 and 6 p.m. and observed a noticeable increase in the number of voters from this morning.
Polls will remain open in New York until 9 p.m.
Multiple Upper West Side schools that served as polling sites on Tuesday took the opportunity to also organize bake sales, including at P.S. 75 on West End Avenue between West 95th and 96th streets.
“I’m feeling nervous, I remember what it was like in 2016 and I don’t want to be too confident,” an Upper West Side voter leaving the P.S. 75 polling site on Tuesday evening, who preferred not to be named, told the Rag. “I’m apprehensive but hopeful.”
As of 6 p.m. on Tuesday, more than 500,000 people have voted in Manhattan, and more than 2 million across the city, according to the New York City Board of Elections.
Also on Tuesday evening, Rep. Jerry Nadler and Democratic candidate for Assembly Micah Lasher, who are both on the ballot this election, campaigned at the West 96th Street train station.
Closing out the day on the Upper West Side with @RepJerryNadler, @MicahLasher, @3ParksDems reminding people to vote for Prop 1! pic.twitter.com/r0XKltV2FF
— Keith Powers (@KeithPowersNYC) November 5, 2024
The Rag will post election results in a separate article.
Original Story
By Gus Saltonstall
Election Day is finally here and Upper West Siders started making their way to the polls early Tuesday morning.
West Side Rag checked out three polling sites from West 71st to 83rd streets between 8 and 9 a.m., and while long lines had not yet begun to form outside, there was a steady stream of voters at all three locations.
The streets were full of people with “I Voted” stickers, along with many wearing Kamala Harris shirts and hats. There was one man wearing a “Trump Was Right About Everything” t-shirt who walked by this Rag reporter on West 81st Street.
State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal was stationed Tuesday morning at the corner of West 84th Street and Columbus Avenue, speaking with voters and handing out literature.
“The importance is the visibility for Proposal 1,” Hoylman-Sigal told the Rag when asked about the importance of being on the Upper West Side for Election Day. “New York City has to carry the day on this very important constitutional amendment to codify abortion and LGBTQ rights among other areas in our state constitution.”
As for the presidential race, “Predictions say it is going to be a nail biter,” Hoylman-Sigal said, “but I know a lot of Upper West Siders have been deployed as election monitors across the Northeast, particularly lawyers, so I am grateful for that.”
Hoylman-Sigal is on the ballot Tuesday for some Upper West Siders against Republican challenger Emily Yuexin Miller. Congressman Jerry Nadler is also taking on a Republican, Mike Zumbluskas, while Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal and Democratic candidate for Assembly Micah Lasher are running unopposed.
Six buses carrying volunteers also left from the Upper West Side on Tuesday morning to help the Harris campaign in Pennsylvania.
This is not a line outside a poll site.
This is a line of Harris volunteers filling up six buses on W. 62nd St., headed to PA this a.m.
This is why we are gonna win it. pic.twitter.com/lnnocVl4cf
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) November 5, 2024
Polling sites will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. in New York City, and as a reminder, you can find your polling location — HERE.
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Thanks for the update – I didn’t realize Nadler was up for re-election.
So you didn’t vote? He was on the ballot.
All members of the House are up for election every two years.
Is the law that they can’t be within 100 feet of the entrance?
You can be there but you can’t ‘electioneer’ within 100 feet of the entrance. I wondered about what the State Senator was doing there besides getting his picture in the paper.
Not that this will change any UWS votes, but my guess is most of my neighbors are not voting for what they think they are!
https://www.city-journal.org/article/whos-the-fascist?utm_source=virtuous&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cjdaily
Packing the polls in PA?
No, these are volunteers (like one of my neighbors) who are spending days knocking on doors in towns like Bethlehem, PA and trying to convince people to vote.
Haven’t voted in NY in 25+ years. Sent a letter to the Board of Elections back then informing them I had changed my residency and requested my name be taken off the rolls. I only wonder how many times a vote has been cast in my name since then, including this past week?