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On November 4th in New York City, voters will decide who will be their next mayor. Assembly member Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary, former Governor Andrew Cuomo and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams are both running on independent lines and Curtis Sliwa is running as the Republican nominee. 

Errol Louis, political anchor at "NY1", where he hosts "Inside City Hall," joined WNYC host Michael Hill for the latest from the campaign trail. 

While campaign rivals typically cross paths at community events or on the debate stage, Democrat Phil Wong and Republican Alicia Vaichunas have to face each other every time they sit down at work.

For the past 10 years, Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen have been hosting our Documentary of the Week here on WNYC. They are also co-founders of the DOC NYC Festival, which runs in the city every November. Now, Thom has written a new book called MONDO DOCUMENTARY.

It covers more than 350 films that he presented as the documentary programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival. Thom joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to talk about the book.

A New York state gaming commission is set to award up to three downstate casino licenses by the end of the year. And now, the number of active proposals is down to 6, after two proposed Manhattan casinos were rejected by local advisory committees this week. One was proposed for Times Square, the other for Hudson Yards.

With more committee votes expected by the end of this month, WNYC's Arun Venugopal joins Weekend Edition host David Furst with the latest.

This Sunday, the New York Transit Museum's annual bus festival takes place in Brooklyn Bridge Park. WNYC’s transportation reporter Stephen Nessen joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to explain what makes the event such a big deal.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy recently signed a bill into law that would allow the composting of human bodies as an alternative to cremation and traditional burial.

Families can choose to scatter or plant the soil that comes out of it or send it to local conservation sites where it’s used for reforestation or growing trees.  

Samantha Link is the director of government affairs for the New Jersey State Funeral Directors Association. Dianne Thompson-Stanciel is a resident of New Jersey whose husband went through the human composting process this year. Both talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson more about how human composting works.

Five years ago this weekend, during the height of the pandemic, Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny hopped on the back of a flatbed truck and played a concert to the mostly empty streets of the Bronx and Upper Manhattan. WNYC's Verónica Del Valle looks at why that moment still resonates.  

The city's plan to compel large buildings to use on-street trash containers faces a protracted environmental review. That and more in this week's On The Way roundup of New York City transit news. 

Many of the produce you can find at New York City greenmarkets are indigenous to Latin America. Some are common pantry staples like tomatoes and potatoes. Others, you may not have reached for before like tomatillo, groundcherry and an herb called pápalo.

Amelia Tarpey is a program and publicity manger for GrowNYC Greenmarkets. She shares what crops originally from Latin America are grown in New York, and fun ways to prepare them. 

Between January and the end of June, police made more than 800 drug arrests in the 40th Precinct, which covers The Hub. That's more than double the number of arrests in the first half of last year, according to Gothamist’s analysis of city data. Read the full story here.