Closing summary
This brings our live coverage of the final New York mayoral debate to a close.
We will have analysis from our politics team shortly.
Overall, the 90-minute event seemed unlikely to have changed many minds, with the main focus being an extended argument between Zohan Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, and Andrew Cuomo, the former governor he defeated in the primary, now running as an independent.
Cuomo kept hammering the point that his experience should make him the right choice, given his long career in government at the state and federal level, as opposed to Mamdani, the state assemblyman who is almost exactly half his age.
Mamdani, for his part, cast himself as the candidate of change, focused on affordability and trying to reverse a situation in which New York is becoming “a museum of where working-class people used to be able to live”.
Sliwa is an engaging presence on television, but did little to change the perception that he remains more of a quirky cultural figure than a likely government administrator.
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Debate ends
The final debate of the campaign just came to an end with an exchange in which the candidates were asked to name one thing that New York got right during the pandemic.
Sliwa says Cuomo got nothing right.
Mamdani says it only took 15 minutes to get his covid-19 vaccine shot. “That was an efficient experience,” he says.
Cuomo says, “Thank you for the compliment.” Mamdani replies: “That was a city-run vaccine site.”
“No, it wasn’t,” Cuomo says.
