Candidates in Manhattan and Brooklyn will be on the ballot.
New Yorkers have heard a lot about the Democratic Primary for mayor coming up in June.
But voters in Manhattan and Brooklyn will also soon be able to select their borough’s top prosecutor.
And they’ll have to choose just one candidate, not their top five. The district attorneys in New York City serve within the state court system — not as elected officials for the city — so their races are done via traditional, one-vote ballots, not by ranked choice voting.
The race in Manhattan pits incumbent DA Alvin Bragg against Patrick Timmins, a former Bronx prosecutor.
In Brooklyn, incumbent DA Eric Gonzalez technically has a re-election this year. But he is uncontested for June’s primary and will automatically appear on November’s ballot.
There is no Republican primary and no Republican third-party candidates are yet registered opposing him in the general election.
Queens, Staten Island and The Bronx won’t hold DA elections until 2027.
In Manhattan, Bragg, 51, a reform-minded prosecutor, has a formidable amount of campaign cash and powerful endorsements — and is the only DA in history to ever successfully prosecute a former president.
In 2021, he became the first Black person elected to that office since the position became an elected office in 1846 after coming out ahead in a field of seven other candidates.
His high-profile May 2024 conviction of former and current President Donald Trump on felony charges of falsifying records skyrocketed his national profile — and made him a target of right-wing hate, including calls to imprison him.
He has raised $1.3 million for his 2025 campaign, including $845,253 between March 2023 and January 2024 after his indictment of Trump, state campaign records show.
None of the money has come from corporations, lobbyists, or lawyers who have cases before his office, according to the Bragg campaign.
