NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — Candidates Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley have conceded in the Democratic mayoral primary after the Associated Press projected Eric Adams as the winner in the race.
“While it is only by a razor-thin margin, Eric Adams will be the winner of the Democratic primary," Garcia told reporters at a news conference in Central Park on Wednesday morning.
Garcia spoke in front of the Women's Right Pioneers monument, saying while her campaign came close to breaking the glass ceiling to become the first female mayor of New York City, they only managed to put a few cracks in it.
"For 400 years no woman has held the top seat at City Hall," Garcia said. This campaign has come closer than any other moment in history to breaking that glass ceiling in selecting New York City's first female mayor. We cracked the hell out of it, and it's ready to be broken, but we have not cracked that glass ceiling."
"What happened in this race was a mission and what we did together was simply a movement," Wiley said, speaking outside the Lucerne, an Upper West Hotel that served as a flashpoint for the city's larger debate around homelessness.
Both Garcia and Wiley said they have called to congratulate Adams.
Adams declared victory Tuesday night after the latest tally showed the Brooklyn Borough President with 50.5% of the vote compared to 49.5% for Garcia for a difference of about 8,400 votes after more than 100,000 absentee ballots were counted.
Adams is the heavy favorite to win the general election in November, which would make him just the second Black mayor in the city's history.
He is set to face Republican Curtis Sliwa.
The 60-year-old Adams served with the NYPD for more than two decades and has been Brooklyn's borough president since 2013.
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