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Kathryn Garcia sounds note of cautious optimism at Williamsburg watch party

The former sanitation commissioner is trailing Eric Adams but banking on her late surge

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Kathryn Garcia, candidate for mayor of New York City, delivers remarks to supporters on June 22, 2021 in the Bushwick neighborhood in New York City.

The nondescript venue, on a dead-end street in post-industrial East Williamsburg, was in some ways a fitting location for the end of a grueling campaign that until not too long ago was widely dismissed as unviable.

On Tuesday night,...

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