Big Apple voters gave Mayor Eric Adams a rare recent victory as they approved a slew of ballot proposals his critics blasted as a power grab.

Proposals 3, 4 and 5 all passed Tuesday and will revise the city’s charter to respectively give estimates of potential laws’ cost, bestow more power on the mayor over public safety legislation and require the city to assess the cost of maintaining properties and investments.

The city-focused measures passed along with the statewide Prop 1, which aimed to protect abortion rights.

"This is a great day for everyone who desires a safer city, cleaner streets, greater fiscal responsibility, transparency in the city’s capital planning process, and, of course, access to abortion care," Adams said in a statement.

Along with Proposal 2, which gives the sanitation new powers to crack down on public trash, they were five measures that Adams pushed over the objections of City Council members.

The only Adams-backed proposal to fail was Prop 6, which created a new role to support minority- and women-owned businesses.

Prop 2 has passed in New York City, which will give the sanitation department new powers to crack down on public trash.

The proposal will change the city charter to allow the Department of Sanitation to crack down on street vendors in order to keep streets clean from trash.

It will also give the Sanitation Department new powers to keep parks and highway medians clean.

Opponents of the measure said that it would create undue burdens on small businesses and street vendors.

Trump earned a surge of support in all five boroughs in his campaign for president compared to the 2016 and 2020 elections.

With more than 97% of scanners reporting, Trump boasted 30.44% of New York City’s vote in Tuesday's election, according to the city Board of Elections.

The chunk is the highest total Trump has seen across his three presidential bids, which have steadily grown stronger across the years — with support soaring in The Bronx, Manhattan and Queens.

Most of Trump’s growing support can be tracked down to The Bronx, where ballots cast in his name soared 35% between 2020 and 2024. This year, 91,542 residents voted for the Republican compared to just 67,740 when he was up against President Biden.

Manhattanites also made a major shift toward Trump between the past two elections: he racked up 103,060 votes this year, a 20% surge compared to 2020.

The majority of the support stemmed from Trump’s home borough of Queens, where 247,891 residents pledged their votes to the ex-president. The total marks a 16.5% surge compared to the number of votes he won in 2020.

Support for Trump also rose in Brooklyn and Staten Island but by much smaller margins, where voter turnout in his name increased by nearly 8% and just 0.7%, respectively.

Trump’s improved voter margin marks a growing support base that has been building since he started his political career in 2016, when he won just 18% of New York City’s vote. He jumped to 23% in 2020.

Nearly 2,58,600 New Yorkers turned out to vote in 2024 compared to a whopping 3,066,581 in 2020 and 2,759,389 in 2016.

The 2024 presidential election marks the closest New York State has come to turning red since 1988.

Vice President Kamala Harris is leading Donald Trump by just 11.4% of the vote, with just 6% of ballots yet to be counted, according to the state Board of Elections.

The margin between Democrats and Republicans hasn't been as slim since Michael Dukakis beat George H. W. Bush by a narrow 4.1% -- before ultimately losing the election to the Republican contender.

Since then, Democrats have maintained a strong lead, which has still yet to drop back into the single digits.

• '92 -- Bill Clinton beat Bush by 15.85%

• -96 -- Clinton beat Bob Dole by 28.8%

• '00 -- Gore beat George W. Bush by 25%

• '04 -- John Kerry beat George W. Bush by 18%
• '08 -- Barack Obama beat John McCain by 36.85%
• '12 -- Obama beat Mitt Romney by 28.18%
• '16 -- Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 22.37%
• '20 -- Joe Biden beat Trump by 23.13%

Democrat Laura Gillen declared victory with only a narrow margin early Wednesday — while first-term Republican Rep. Anthony D’Esposito refused to concede the race for his Long Island congressional seat.

Gillen led with 182,506 votes to D’Esposito’s 176,426 with 98% of districts reporting, preliminary tallies from Tuesday’s election show.

“It’s time to turn a new leaf,” Gillen said, declaring victory at the Nassau County Democratic watch party. “It’s time to get Congress back to work again for everyday people. It’s time to stop pointing fingers and start getting the work done and reaching across the aisle and solving the problems that we need solved.

“I look forward to humbly serving every constituent of this district It doesn’t matter if you’re an R or a D or an I, I’m here to work for all of you.”

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Former President Donald Trump picked up 43% of the Jewish vote in New York, according to Fox News exit polls.

Kamala Harris support among Jewish voters was at 56%, significantly lower than Biden's support among Jews in 2020.

Jewish voters typically back Democratic candidates in high numbers, Biden received 68% of the Jewish vote in 2020, with Trump only receiving 30%.

Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi claimed victory late Tuesday and is expected to retain control of disgraced former GOP congressman George Santos’ old seat on Long Island.

Suozzi carried 52% of votes, while his Republican challenger Michael LiPetri Jr. snagging 48%, with 84% of expected ballots tallied as of 12:14 a.m., according to the Associated Press.

“I think that we all recognize that the people of the United States of America and the people of my congressional district are sick of extremism,” Suozzi told supporters gathered at the Garden City Hotel in Nassau County.

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Lawler led just after 11:35 p.m. with 55% of the vote compared to Jones’ 43%, and 75% of the estimated total reported, according to the Associated Press.

“What an absolute ass-kicking!” Lawler gleefully told a roomful of supporters at the Paramount Country Club in New City, NY. “Tonight the Hudson Valley told Mondaire Jones to ‘Beat It!’”

He walked on stage to Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.”

The contest pitting the progressive Jones against the conservative Lawler was closely watched nationally as polls showed a tight race, with the potential balance of power in the US House on the line.

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Republicans picked up a state Senate seat in Brooklyn, according to unofficial election returns Tuesday.

Retired NYPD sergeant Steven Chan handily defeated first-term Democratic incumbent Iwen Chu in southern Brooklyn’s 17th District that encompasses Dyker Heights, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Sunset Park.

With more than 90% of the precincts reporting, Chan received 27,865 votes or 55% to 22,5990 or 45% for Chu.

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Democrat John Mannion is projected to unseat freshman Republican Rep. Brandon Williams, flipping a battleground Upstate New York congressional district to the Democrats.

Mannion carried 53% of the vote to Williams’ 46% in the closely watched race, preliminary tallies from Tuesday’s election show.

The Associated Press called the race just after 11:15 p.m.

District 22 — which covers Syracuse and Utica — represented one of Democrats’ best chances to pick up a congressional seat and, perhaps, take control of the House.

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Freshman Republican Rep. Nick LaLota is getting another term, handily defeating Democratic challenger John Avlon in a battle for a congressional seat on Long Island’s East End, projections show.

LaLota scooped up 47% of votes compared to Avlon’s 41% with nearly every election district reporting, preliminary results from Tuesday’s election show.

Avlon conceded the race just before 11:15 p.m, with LaLota claiming victory.

“I am deeply honored that Long Islanders have entrusted me to serve in Congress for another two years. Our convincing victory reflects our commitment to tackling our nation’s toughest challenges, from securing the border and fighting high prices to increasing the SALT deduction cap,” LaLota said.

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Democratic incumbent Rep. Pat Ryan is projected to win over Republican challenger Alison Esposito in a tight suburban New York House race, according to the Associated Press.

Ryan racked up nearly 59% of votes compared to Esposito’s 41%, with 72% of ballots tallied, preliminary tallies from Tuesday’s election show.

The 18th congressional district covering Orange, Dutchess and Ulster counties was one of the most competitive races in the 2024 election, as Democrats hoped to wrest Republicans’ razor-thin control of the House.

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