Adams Attacks Garcia as Poll Shows They Lead Mayoral Field

With early voting underway, the candidates are making their final cases to voters, and they are attacking their closest rivals.

The front-runner in the race for mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, took aim at his main rival, Kathryn Garcia, on Monday as a new poll showed that the two candidates were leading as the campaign enters its final week. Mr. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, clearly sees Ms. Garcia as a threat: He held a news conference with sanitation workers on Monday to draw attention to allegations that women and minority workers at the city agency received unequal pay. Ms. Garcia ran the Sanitation Department until last year, when she resigned to run for mayor. Ms. Garcia, for her part, defended her record and declared the mayoral contest a two-person race.