The race for New York City Public Advocate—an office with a budget of just over $2 million— may be the only one going to a runoff, which could cost $20 million. Flip a fucking coin.

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.

Earlier this morning a post went up on Reddit's NYC subreddit decrying some space-hogging subway rider for taking up much-needed legroom with his laptop stance.

Polly Mosendz is a 22-year-old recent college graduate. She's also the proud new buyer of a quarter-million dollar Manhattan apartment. "I am a normal 20-something," she writes.

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.

Alarming news for music lovers: the New York City Opera, which has performed in the city for generations, will have to cancel the rest of its season and all of next year's season if it doesn't raise $20 million soon. A tragedy, for the arts. Still, no one should give the opera $20 million.

New York City spent $167,000 on each one of its more than 12,000 jail inmates last year. Too bad there is no better use for that money in the whole wide world.

Lady manhole (SOHO, NYC)

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly held a news conference earlier this week to brag about the largest gun bust in the city's history.

Following a recent ruling by a Federal judge who declared the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program unconstitutional, Mayor Bloomberg said he planned to appeal the decision claiming the discriminatory practice of detaining the city's residents based on their skin color didn't get "a fair trial."

Remember when New York City was perceived as some sort of gritty urban jungle? Haha. Remember when Brooklyn was perceived as an even grittier urban backwater? Hahaha. Remember when New York City was "cool?"

Emma Roberts joined the unwashed masses outside Dominique Ansel Bakery yesterday morning in an effort to get her hands on a genuine Cronut — New York's most elusive pastry.

It's like one of those riddles, except real and very sad.

This video of a Bronx woman going all Elin Nordegren on an SUV comes with very little by way of context.

If you thought losing his campaign manager was the worst of the fallout for sext machine Anthony Weiner, you clearly haven't seen this blazingly heated exchange between the mayoral candidate and a retired Staten Island teacher named Peg Brunda.

George McDonald, who is considered a "fringe" candidate for New York City mayor because he spent his time housing the homeless rather than taking pictures of his own dick, has a cool house.

Tourism PSA: the time for "haggling" has come when a driver tries to charge you $720 for a 20-minute pedicab ride.

Manhattan residents have an odd tendency of thinking they are "better" than everyone else in their city, state, nation, and planet, just because they live in the borough "where it all happens," or some other falsehood that hasn't been true since Woody Allen's heyday. Sadly, they have a point.

Having failed to curb soda cup sizes, NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg has a new public health initiative: he is working to convince New Yorkers to take the stairs. This will accomplish nothing.

"If a raging hurricane were to strike New York City, it could suck up sharks and other sea creatures — triggering a Sharkicane, a horrifying real-life twist on the campy hit flick 'Sharknado.'"