New York Today: Priorities for Next Mayor

What do you want our next mayor to accomplish in the next four years?

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Good morning on this nippy Wednesday.

Mayor Bill de Blasio cruised to a second-term victory yesterday. (And Philip D. Murphy, a former Wall Street banker, will replace Chris Christie as New Jersey governor.)

Among Mayor de Blasio’s promises in the next four years: the creation of thousands of affordable housing units, a friendlier police force, and free, full-day preschool for 3-year-olds.

We asked New York Today readers: What do you want our next mayor to accomplish in the next four years? Here’s what a few of your neighbors said:

“Focus on making New York City a place where all residents can safely walk, bike and use fast and reliable transit anywhere in the city.”

— Avinoam Baral, 24, Manhattan

“Improve the subway system, it’s really frustrating.”

— John White, 27, Brooklyn

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“Improve the traffic flow in Manhattan and ease the congestion.”

— William J. Fleming, the Bronx

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“Support a congestion pricing plan that’ll charge drivers, taxis and ride-shares entering Manhattan’s busiest district (south of 59th Street), and toll bridges and tunnels appropriately.”

— Brennan Ortiz, 25, the Bronx

“New York is a hard city to live in without money, and the next mayor needs to continue policies in education, housing, access to health care, and the minimum wage to ensure it becomes the highest ranking city in America for economic mobility, which is how we measure the American dream.”

— Eóin Cunningham, 37, Brooklyn

Well said.

Here’s what else is happening:

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A brisk-but-beautiful Wednesday.

It may feel as chilly as 30 or 40 degrees when you head out this morning — especially with the breeze — but the high should climb to 50 and the sunshine should take the edge off.

Same shtick on Thursday, but you’ll want to dust off your winter coat by Friday.

In the News

• New Yorkers rejected the opportunity to review the state’s constitution at a constitutional convention. [New York Times]

In the weeks leading up to Election Day, opponents of a constitutional convention in New York State spent more than $1 million to help defeat the measure.

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• Results in close City Council contests could shape the race for the next speaker, and they showed the strength of Mr. de Blasio’s win. [New York Times]

• Tim Sini, a Democrat, won the race for Suffolk County district attorney, an office tarnished by recent scandal. [New York Times]

• In Westchester and Nassau Counties, Democrats took county executive seats away from Republicans, in part thanks to anti-Trump sentiment. [New York Times]

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• The focus of the closing arguments in Norman Seabrook’s trial was on the contents of a bag: $60,000 in bribes or a gift of Cuban cigars? [New York Times]

• After fleeing postwar Vietnam on a fishing boat, a family finally had the chance to thank the merchant seaman who found them at sea. [New York Times]

Mai Tran and Thiem Vuong thanked Ken Nelson, one of the sailors who rescued them in 1980.

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• The lack of diversity among elected officials has prompted backlash among black and Latino leaders, especially in the race for City Council speaker. [New York Times]

• After being denied visas by officials in the United Arab Emirates, journalism professors of New York University are refusing to teach at the school’s Abu Dhabi campus. [New York Times]

• A federal judge will decide whether a Queens developer broke the law when he destroyed a building with artists’ colorful murals. [New York Times]

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• With public ads and organization campaigns, city officials will begin reminding the public not to feed the wildlife. [CBS New York]

• A video surfaced of an M.T.A. worker kicking and dragging a drunk passenger off a subway train. [New York Post]

• Today’s Metropolitan Diary: “Giving the Playwright a Lift”

• For a global look at what’s happening, see Your Morning Briefing.

Coming Up Today

• The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit performs “The Winter’s Tale,” a Shakespeare romance with tragedy and comedy, at the Brownsville Recreation Center in Brooklyn. 11:30 a.m. [Free]

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• The folk singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III performs and speaks with Randy Cohen, as part of the “Person, Place, Thing” series, at KGB Bar in the East Village. 6:30 p.m. [Tickets start at $15]

• “The ‘Nasty Woman’ Stigma,” a panel discussion that is part of a celebration of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York, at the Brooklyn Historical Society. 6:30 p.m. [$5]

• New York Comedy Festival continues with shows at Caroline’s, Gotham Comedy Club and Comedy Cellar in Manhattan, and the Bell House, Union Hall and Gutter Bar in Brooklyn. Times and prices vary.

• Looking ahead: On Thursday, New York Times journalists who covered the sexual harassment cases of Harvey Weinstein, Bill O’Reilly and others join TimesTalks to discuss exposing male abuse of power.

• Knicks at Magic, 7 p.m. (MSG). Rangers host Bruins, 8 p.m. (NBCS).

• Alternate-side parking remains in effect until Friday.

• For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts Entertainment guide.

A “Can-Struction Site” at the exhibition Canstruction in 2016.

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And Finally…

Can you imagine local art and architecture made of cans?

Canstruction, an annual contest and exhibition of unusual shapes, statues and towers built from full cans of food, has returned to Brookfield Place in Lower Manhattan. The event, now in its 25th year, is intended to generate discussion on food access and raise awareness about hunger. The architects, engineers and design students who have created the life-size structures competed this week for titles like “Most Cans,” “Best Use of Labels” and “Structural Ingenuity.”

(The structure with the most cans had 7,250.)

Stop by this year and you may see a tree made of cans. Or perhaps a can-made pineapple, Pokémon or Pacman character — to name just a few.

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You can check out the display any day of the week, through Nov. 15, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., except on the closing day, which wraps up at 6 p.m.

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