Bill de Blasio, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, seriously regrets attending an event honoring Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in 2002. De Blasio currently leads Republican opponent Joe Lhota by 41 points.

Last month, in the New Yorker's attempt to summarize the legacy of grumpy moneybags mayor Michael Bloomberg, reporter Ken Auletta left one of the mayor's contradictions unresolved. Auletta wrote of Bloomberg's philanthropic efforts:

Earlier this week you may have read in the New York Daily News about the international adventures of Jon Levy, a 33 year-old New Yorker who spent “a year of weekends at the world’s most exhilarating and entertaining spectacles.” The article neglected to mention Levy’s extremely important side gig as the host of the “The Influencers Dinner,” a monthly gathering of self-described “influentials” (including, at one dinner, a Winklevoss brother) at his massive Manhattan apartment, which he likes to call “The Manor.”

According to police, a 69-year-old man was stabbed to death Monday afternoon in Queens because his attacker thought he was gay. Steven Torres, 22, was arrested at the scene and charged with murder as a hate crime.

The New York Amsterdam News reports that New York mayoral candidate Bill Thompson will concede to his rival Bill de Blasio at 11 a.m. today, allowing New York democrats to avoid a runoff election.

Alert! Lame duck New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has decided not to endorse a candidate in the 2013 mayoral race.

According to at least one subway commuter, the D/N/Q trains were delayed early Friday morning because a naked man refused to get off the tracks at the DeKalb Ave. stop in Brooklyn.

Towering progressive Bill de Blasio almost certainly won New York City’s Democratic primary on Tuesday evening. He trounced previous front-runner Chris Quinn on an unapologetically liberal, anti-Bloomberg platform, following a competent campaign and decades of service in New York City politics. But in reality — the reality defined by Manhattan media, at least — de Blasio won because his son, 16-year-old Dante de Blasio, filmed that touching 15-second political ad you probably saw on YouTube.

According to exit poll results, early returns, and the live streaming video from the Team de Blasio block party in Brooklyn, Bill de Blasio will win the democratic mayoral primary, though it’s unclear whether he will hit the 40 percent needed to avoid a runoff. Currently, Thompson is behind de Blasio in votes, followed by Christine Quinn.

After an election day filled with complaints about the old lever machines not working, New York City polling places have officially closed. Early polls say mayoral candidate de Blasio has a wide lead in the Democratic Primary. Here’s where you can see the primary results as they’re updated throughout the evening.

Contributing editor Max Rivlin-Nadler reports that an Orthodox Jewish group is (illegally) sponsoring a cash raffle in Williamsburg to reward residents who voted in today’s city-wide primary. The raffle’s signage encourages entrants to re-elect Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes, who helped conceal child sex abuse within the borough’s Orthodox Jewish communities.

Last week, Jeffrey Babbitt was randomly attacked in Union Square, allegedly for being white. Yesterday, the 62-year-old from Sheepshead Bay died in Bellevue Hospital.

Finally, tomorrow, after months of vaguely trying to follow the New York City mayoral race, millions of New Yorkers will enter ballot booths and choose their parties' mayoral candidates. Bill de Blasio? Christine Quinn? John Catsimatidis? We want Gawker readers to tell us all who we should absolutely not, under no circumstances, ever vote for, and why.

Hours after New York magazine published its interview with Michael Bloomberg — in which the sitting mayor of New York City called Democratic mayoral front-runner Bill de Blasio “racist” for campaigning with his family — de Blasio appeared at a Brooklyn rally to dismiss Bloomberg’s bizarre accusation: “I hope he’ll realize that it was inappropriate.” De Blasio’s wife Chirlane McCray later tweeted at the mayor, “I am not property or a tool to be used or controlled.” Indeed, it turns out the real racist — under Bloomberg’s terms — is Bloomberg himself.

Example #4,080 of why it is not wise to videotape yourself breaking the law and then upload that video to the internet: Adam Tang, who allegedly filmed himself setting an unofficial speed record in a drive around the island of Manhattan, was arrested yesterday for reckless driving. Police also seized Tang's 2006 BMW Z4, according to the Associated Press.

The long sludge of New York City’s mayoral primary season is almost over. On Tuesday the five contenders in the Democratic race—including front-runner Bill de Blasio, his current biggest challenger, Bill Thompson, and former front-runner Christine Quinn—duked it out on live television, with Quinn and peripheral candidates Anthony Weiner and John Liu aiming to loosen de Blasio’s grip on recent poll numbers in the hopes of forcing a runoff election. It wasn’t pretty.

A new Quinnipiac poll of the New York City mayoral race has Bill de Blasio leading at 43 percent—more than double the support of Bill Thompson, at 20 percent. (Quinn trails with 18 percent.) If de Blasio can garner more than 40 percent of the vote in the primary, he can avoid a runoff.

Earlier this summer, Louis C.K. found a dead body. According to an interview with David Letterman on the Late Show, C.K was driving his boat up the East River near lower Manhattan when he spotted a "floater" in the water.

A British tourist visiting Rockefeller Center suffered horrific injuries on Tuesday, after a New York taxicab jumped a curb where she was standing and severed her foot.

This week, the New Yorker published a long elegy of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 12-year legacy. It’s brutal. Media critic Ken Auletta paints Bloomberg as a jackbooted, power-hungry bruiser: “the biggest plutocrat in a plutocratic capital, a creature of Wall Street who, flagrantly and legally, tapped his limitless bank account to become, and remain, mayor.” Asked about it by reporters—specifically about the part where Auletta describes his secret efforts to line up police commissioner Ray Kelly as a candidate to succeed him as mayor—Bloomberg refused to acknowledge the existence of the piece.