Ben told me that this new series, which features comedians interviewing an expert on a topic they’ve always wanted to know more about (ranging from neuroscience, astrophysics, mental health, spirituality, cultural history and more) is the purest distillation of what they’ve been doing at Caveat for a while now.

“I had the option for a weekly series open up, and I thought, well…let’s just do the most basic thing we can, that is based on what we do already. So — take a comedian, take an academic, or some kind of expert, put them in conversation, and see what happens,” he said.

“The thing I originally wanted to bring into the world by opening this space is this kind of mix,” he continued. “I have this belief that there’s room for comedy that really tackles complicated subjects, and I think we’re showing that it can be done.”

Caveat is celebrating their 9th anniversary next month, which makes for a long list of people who they’ve worked with – both the comedians and the experts – so Ben knew they had a large enough “roster” to make it a regular thing.

Upcoming shows feature people like comedian Brandon Collins interviewing Justin Williams, a professor of History and the director of the African American Studies Program at University of Detroit Mercy about African History, or comedian Asher Perlman interviewing Weiji Ma, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at New York University, about consciousness, and television host/food expert Padma Lakshmi (Top Chef) interviewing Lisa Miller Ph.D, a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Columbia Teachers College, about the psychology of spirituality.

The 90 minute show includes a warm up, a substantial interview, and Q & A with the live audience. Caveat shows are also recorded and posted online for at-home streaming.

I asked Ben if the audience for these might just be a bunch of brainiacs…?

He assured me the show is geared towards people who are generally curious about all kinds of things.

“There’s a lot of people in this city, and I think everywhere, that really want to engage and really want to learn stuff,” he said, “and then for the Caveat crowd, there’s definitely people who not only want to learn, but if they’re laughing uproariously at the same time, that’s great.”

You can find tickets and more info HERE.

You can read in detail about the saga at the Elizabeth Street Garden elsewhere, but here are the basics. After championing the plan to build 123 units of senior housing on Elizabeth Street for most of his time in office, Mayor Adams changed course last summer. He announced that the city would heed the pleas of garden activists and build affordable housing on other sites.

Adams’ team identified three development parcels: 22 Suffolk St., 156-166 Bowery and 100 Gold St. The developers – Pennrose, Habitat for Humanity and RiseBoro Community Partnership – filed a lawsuit challenging the city’s decision to derail their project, known as Haven Green. Meanwhile, during last year’s mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani pledged to move forward with affordable housing on Elizabeth Street. The Adams Administration responded by transferring the Elizabeth Street site to the Parks Department, making it difficult for any future administration to develop housing there.

Last week Mayor Mamdani asserted that pressing ahead with Haven Green on Elizabeth Street was impossible, since it would have required approval from the State Legislature to allow development on a site designated as parkland. So he pivoted. “As part of our commitment to building the affordable housing New Yorkers urgently need,” said mayoral spokesperson Matt Rauschenbach, “we are moving forward to deliver over 180 affordable homes at 22 Suffolk Street.“

In a statement, District 1 City Council member Christopher Marte called the announcement from the Mayor, “a true win-win for Lower Manhattan.” He added, “I want to thank Mayor Mamdani and his administration for finding a path forward that preserves the Elizabeth Street Garden while delivering an unprecedented amount of permanently affordable housing in our community. For years, people were told they had to choose between protecting one of our neighborhood’s most cherished green spaces and building desperately needed affordable housing. This agreement proves that with creativity and a willingness to listen, New York City can do both.”

Here’s what we know so far about plans for the lot, which is located on the northeast corner of Suffolk and Grand streets. Rauschenbach told Gothamist that 120 rental apartments would be for low-income seniors, with the remainder reserved for other low-income households. He also said the land use review process for the parcel would probably begin in the middle of next year.

If the site undergoes ULURP (Universal Land Use Review Procedure), the proposal would be heard by the local community board, the Manhattan Borough President, the City Planning Commission and the City Council. ULURP usually takes about 9 months to complete.

Last summer, according to Gothamist, Adams’ first deputy mayor, Randy Mastro, claimed, “There’s going to be shovels in the ground at the end of the year (at 22 Spring St.) or certainly by early 2026.” In a letter to Mastro dated June 6, 2025, Council member Marte agreed to support zoning changes necessary for housing on all three parcels, including 22 Suffolk. He wrote, “Contingent on the aforementioned Garden Preservation, I am committed to supporting a rezoning of this site to an R10A district, with a C2-5 commercial overlay, to build a 100 percent affordable housing development of approximately 200 units. I am additionally committed to supporting the designation of this site as an Urban Development Action Area Project.”

That was an agreement made during the previous mayoral administration. It remains to be seen what specific zoning changes the Mamdani Administration has in mind now. Gothamist reported that the Urban Development Action Area designation would allow the project, “to skirt the typical land use process.”

The lot at 22 Suffolk is owned by the city and has a unique history. As part of the former Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, the site has been the subject of contentious community-wide debates since the demolition of tenement housing across multiple blocks of the Lower East Side in 1967. After many failed efforts to redevelop the parcels, the city agreed to work with Community Board 3 to create a consensus plan. In January of 2011, CB3 approved planning guidelines, calling for a mixed-use and mixed-income project on the former SPURA site. 

The key sticking point was always affordable housing. In the end, community members reluctantly settled on 50% affordable housing for low- and middle-income households and 50% market rate housing. The City Council and City Planning Commission approved the Seward Park plan the following year. 

At the time, then City Council member Margaret Chin announced a side agreement with the city administration to build additional affordable housing on the site of the Elizabeth Street greenspace. This revelation set off a years-long battle for the future of the garden. So, in a way, the Seward Park parcel and the Elizabeth Street space have always been linked. 

In 2013, the city awarded a contract for the site to Delancey Street Associates, a consortium led by L+M Development Partners, BFC Partners and Taconic Investment Partners. The project would be known as Essex Crossing. 

A big community priority all along was the inclusion of a pre-kindergarten to eighth grade school on the former Seward site. The development team was required to set aside a 15,000 square foot lot at 22 Suffolk St. for the school until the year 2023. At the time the Seward Park plan was approved, the School Construction Authority contended that there was no need for a new school on the Lower East Side and declined to provide funding. CB3 made the case for the school repeatedly, publishing an “Essex Crossing School” position paper in 2014 and enlisting local elected officials to advocate with the city administration on their behalf. In recent years, the School Construction Authority has cited declining Lower East Side school enrollment to reinforce its decision.

While the 2023 deadline to approve a school on Suffolk Street passed long ago, Mayor Mamdani’s decision to build housing on the site likely marks the official end of CB3’s quest for a school. While it was a high priority, so is affordable housing. Many of the community activists who pushed for more affordable housing on the SPURA site may very well be pleased to learn that 180+ units of deeply affordable housing are on the horizon.

But Susan Stetzer, CB3’s district manager, has been outspoken about the city administration’s decision to move forward with housing on the Suffolk Street site without engaging with the community board. “The current CB3 position for 22 Suffolk, voted on years ago, is that this should be site of new school. CB3 also has had affordable housing as its highest priority for over 20 years,” said Stetzer. “A few months ago, we commissioned a report to look at which bands of affordable housing are most needed, which locations in the community board most need the affordable housing, and what size apartments are needed. We are very disappointed that the administration is not talking to us and working with us to best  serve our very underserved community.” She continued, “We had very high expectations for working with the new administration. CB3 positions are aligned with those of the administration—and we work with amazing staff at the Office of Mass Engagement. However, it is very disappointing that the administration does not understand why it is beneficial for all to work with the community and community boards, which are the means of communities participating in planning.”

CB3’s current District Needs Statement (FY27) continues to prioritize a school at Essex Crossing. The community board has often argued that the School Construction Authority’s analysis is too narrow and flawed. CB3 stated, “Community School District 1 schools are outdated and under-resourced; many schools cannot update their facilities and require students from multiple schools to share common areas.” The new District Needs Statement, currently being drafted, maintains the need for a new school on Suffolk Street.

Just this week, the city administration released a draft of a report showing New York must build 700,000 new homes during the next decade to alleviate the worsening housing crisis. It showed that the Lower East Side and Chinatown need to create more than 7,400 housing units to meet 2030 goals. Housing officials often say every neighborhood must do its part. This particular area of the LES has built a lot of new housing in the past decade.

Counting six new buildings on the former urban renewal site (from Ridge Street to Ludlow Street), more than 900 apartments were created. Other projects have also been undertaken, including a large complex from the Gotham Organization located just across the street from 22 Suffolk. They added another 900 apartments. This is on top of more than a thousand affordable units built in the 1970s by the New York City Housing Authority (Seward Park Extension), the Grand Street Guild and the Chinese American Planning Council (Hong Ning Senior Housing). Including a senior housing building now under construction behind St. Mary’s Church, approximately 370 of the apartments in the area are reserved for low-income seniors.

A 2025 report by the Pratt Center for Community Development (commissioned by CB3) found, “There is a need for new construction of affordable studio and 1-bedroom apartments targeted to extremely low-income seniors.” Pratt researchers also concluded, “New construction of affordable housing should be prioritized for high-income census tracts that have seen little affordable housing production, to the extent possible.” The authors noted, “New construction (of) affordable units were all located in 6 of CB3’s 31 Census Tracts, more than half of which were in the Essex Crossing developments in one census tract.”

Directed by Benh Zeitlin, and shot entirely on 16mm film, this film took home the Grand Jury prize at Sundance Film Festival where it premiered, as well as the Caméra d’Or award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Starring Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry. (93 mins. Rated PG-13)

The community supported event includes free pizza from Pops, free shaved ice from Titi’s and free popcorn from Village East Cinema to boot (while supplies last). Chairs are first come first served, but they also provide blankets and there are almost always some good seats in the benches along the back of the bandshell.

Madonna, dressed in black lace and an oversized sparkly jacket, walks along St. Mark’s Place during the filming of Desperately Seeking Susan. A man leans against a storefront, not giving he shit. Others seem similarly nonplused.  Cooper Union is a blur in the background. Daniel Root happened to be there with a camera, originally photographing the East Village for a book that never materialized. Forty years later the long-time East Village resident returned to the same corner. Madonna is gone. Students now fill the sidewalk after class. The storefronts have changed, but the rhythm of the street really hasn’t.

That tension between dramatic physical change and everyday continuity drives The East Village Then and Now, Capturing the Changing Streets, Root’s newly published collection of paired photographs from the East Village and Lower East Side. Each spread places an image from the early 1980s beside a contemporary photograph made from nearly the same position. The obvious story is gentrification. The story revealed in Root’s book is more complicated.

“The East Village and Lower East Side were fully functioning neighborhoods in the 1980s despite the drugs and crime,” Root told The Lo-Down. “They are still fully functioning creative neighborhoods.”

It is a deceptively simple observation. Popular memory often reduces the East Village of the Reagan years to a shorthand of abandoned buildings, heroin markets, punk clubs and avant-garde galleries. Those elements existed for sure, but so did families walking children to school, retirees spending afternoons in Tompkins Square Park and immigrant-owned businesses serving customers who had lived on the same blocks for decades.

“Everyone used Tompkins Square Park,” Root said. “Older retirees spent the afternoon on park benches, talking, and playing chess. Children’s theater was in the bandshell and kids played in the sprinklers.”

That perspective distinguishes the book from countless nostalgic looks back at downtown Manhattan. Rather than chasing vanished legends, Root pays equal attention to ordinary rituals that survived the neighborhood’s reinvention.

One of the book’s strongest pairings was shot outside the former Fun Gallery at 254 East 10th Street. In the earlier photograph, neighborhood residents sit beneath the gallery’s famous “Smoking Mona Lisa” mural while the pioneering East Village gallery occupies the storefront behind them. Founded in 1981 by Patti Astor and Bill Stelling, Fun Gallery helped introduce artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and Fab 5 Freddy to a wider audience before closing in 1985. 

The contemporary photograph doesn’t linger on what disappeared. Instead, it shows several people crouched over boxes of free books left on the sidewalk apparently after a hasty move. The mural is gone. The impulse to gather in front of the building is not.

The same restraint shapes Root’s photographs of Ray’s Candy Store at 113 Avenue A. His earlier image captures a cramped storefront selling newspapers, magazines and egg creams beneath a Breyer’s Ice Cream sign. The present-day photograph reveals the current hand-painted sign featuring Ray’s profile, the newspapers are gone, but the tight quarters, snacks and egg cream endure. Since opening the store in 1974, Ray Alvarez has become an institution nearly as recognizable as the storefront itself.

The biggest visual surprise, Root says, isn’t luxury housing. It’s trees.

“The biggest difference, visually and money aside, is the amount of green,” he said. “Street trees and community gardens are everywhere. To the point I could not take some “now” photos in the summer because the trees/leaves block the views.”

That small detail says as much about the neighborhood as any real estate statistic. Vacant lots have become community gardens. Saplings planted decades ago now obscure buildings that were once fully visible from the street.

The Christodora House on Avenue B appears first as a largely vacant shell looming over Alphabet City, a reminder of the disinvestment that scarred much of the neighborhood in the early 1980s. Its companion image shows a restored building, warm interior lights and pedestrians heading home from work and school. The building has become one of the East Village’s most recognizable luxury addresses, but Root deliberately avoids making it the subject. His attention remains fixed on the people moving across the frame.

The book’s accompanying essays reinforce that broader perspective without romanticizing the past. In his introduction, Allen Ginsberg archivist Bill Morgan argues that Root joins a lineage of photographers who have documented New York through periods of upheaval. “Daniel Root’s masterful images are an excellent example of this,” Morgan writes, adding that the photographs record “that on-going rapid change that seems to happen to this spot on earth with lightning speed.”

Artist Peter McGough, who lived on Avenue C during the 1980s, contributes a memoir of a neighborhood where burned-out buildings, drug markets, artists and immigrant families occupied the same streets. His recollections underscore the conditions from which many of Root’s earlier photographs emerged, while reminding readers that memory itself often privileges extremes over ordinary life.

Root’s photographs quietly resist that tendency.

The East Village has accumulated enough mythology to make every discussion of its past sound predetermined. The galleries became famous. The artists became famous. The rents became infamous. Root’s camera keeps drifting back to something less dramatic: people sitting outside a storefront, children walking home from school, neighbors sorting through discarded books, strangers crossing St. Mark’s Place.

Those moments don’t deny how profoundly the neighborhood has changed.

They ask whether change was ever the whole story.

The new building, part of the Essex Crossing mega-project, and the MTA station improvements are almost a decade behind schedule. In the spring of 2025, city and state officials and the development team announced they finally had a deal. But details at the time were sparse. On July 15, some of the speccifics were filled in during an informational presentation at Community Board 3’s land use committee.

Charlie Parente, representing Essex Crossing co-developer BFC Partners, provided an overview of the project. The 10-story building will include 99 rental apartments and 15,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space. He said 26 apartments would be considered affordable to low- and middle-income households. The building was designed by S9 Architecture.

During construction, the development team will create an expanded easement for the MTA. The transit authority will then be responsible for installing elevators and an enlarged escalator leading to and from the subway station. The developers plan to hand the space over to the MTA by the end of 2027. Parenete could not say how long the accessibility project would take once the handoff occurs, but he indicated the building itself is expected to open in the fall of 2029.

The MTA stated last year that it would be, “commencing design… (of) a comprehensive set of accessibility upgrades needed to make the (Delancey Street) station complex fully ADA-accessible. This will include three elevators to ensure that all connections and transfers within the station can be made step-free.” The station improvements are receiving funding from the Congestion Relief Zone.

Community Board 3’s district manager, Susan Stetzer, asked Parente if the current escalator would remain in operation during construction. He replied that the MTA wants to keep it running for as long as possible, but that safety considerations and city regulations would both be factors. Parente explained, “To the extent it can be open and it can be run in a safe manner, we will do so. But it kind of depends on construction activities and where we land with that.”

As for the housing plan at 100 Essex Street, Parente said there would be a mixture of studio, 1, 2 and 3 bedroom units. The below-market-rate units will be permanently affordable. The Essex Crossing team is participating in a program created in 2025, Universal Affordability Preference, which permits 20% more housing than ordinarily would be allowed under New York City’s zoning code if the developer agrees to permanent affordability. The affordable apartments will be available to applicants with annual household incomes between 37% and 130% of Area Median Income (AMI).

At the Community Board meeting, there were questions about the amenity fee that will be charged to all tenants. It will be the same for all residents, those in market rate units and affordable units alike. Land Use Committee Chair Damaris Reyes asked Parente to take the issue back to the development team and to consider a sliding scale for amenities.

The developers envision four commercial spaces along Delancey and Essex streets. Reyes asked whether the developers are seeking a single retail tenant. Parente indicated that the spaces are not contiguous, so they will be looking for multiple commercial tenants. They’re targeting “experiential retail” and “food and beverage.” Reyes responded, “There are a lot of restaurants in the area. We have the movie theater, immersive gaming, and less and less smaller shops selling things that the community needs.”

Overall, the Essex Crossing project includes over a thousand apartments, half of which are designated affordable for low- and middle-income households. 100 Essex Street was originally supposed to have been completed in 2018. Demolition and new building permits were filed with the city earlier this year. The development team is hoping to take control of the former Essex Street Market building within the next few weeks, beginning demolition and construction in the fall.

The project at 145 Broome St. was undertaken by the Grand Street Guild and Catholic Homes of New York. It will include 190 studio and one-bedroom apartments for low-income seniors. Back in the 1970s, Grand Street Guild (a non-profit established by the New York Archdiocese) built three 26-story towers on parcels around St. Mary’s. More recently, the organization developed 165 Broome St., an affordable housing complex a block to the east of the current construction site.

In a press release put out by the city a year ago, completion of the project was envisioned by the beginning of 2028. Signage on the construction fencing, however, anticipates a fall of 2027 completion timeframe.

The project is part of the City of New York’s Senior Affordable Rental Apartments (SARA) program. The development team says 30% of the apartments will be available for formerly homeless seniors age 55 and older. The total development budget was expected to be $176 million. On-site social services will be provided by Catholic Charities Community Services.

This past spring, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designated St. Mary’s Church as an individual landmark. But the designation did not include an adjoining parcel where the church’s vacant rectory building and a parking lot are located. So it’s possible more development around the church could come to fruition sometime in the future.

This iteration reimagines the Forest of Arden as the Lower East Side– “a haven where artists, outsiders and free spirits seek refuge from an increasingly authoritarian world. Shakespeare’s tale of exile, resistance, community and renewal feels remarkably contemporary, while the play’s exuberant romance and humor remain delightfully intact. Expect political intrigue, a spectacular wrestling match, and a fresh interpretation of Phoebe and Silvius as older lovers, reminding us that the joys, confusions and absurdities of love belong to every age.”

The team notes that many audience favorites return from last season’s acclaimed production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” including Andy Rowell (Touchstone), Lia Bonfilio (Rosalind), Thammie Laine Guac (Celia), Patrick Hart (Orlando), Emanuel Elpenord (Oliver), Bob Arcaro (Adam), Chris Martel (Duke Senior/Duke Frederick), Carly Grissom (Denise/Audrey), Raphael del Rio (Charles), David Marantz (Jaques), Elowyn Castle (Corinne), Adama Joy Sall (Amiens), Lizabeth Allen (Phoebe) and Dan Teachout (Silvius). Production design and Direction is by Hamilton Clancy, with Alessandro Colla serving as Assistant Director.

The production also features original music by Adama Joy Sall and Thammie Laine Guac, along with songs by Natalie Smith and Andrew Gombas that originated in earlier Shakespeare in the Parking Lot productions.

Admission is free and donations are encouraged. Chairs are provided on a first come first serve basis and audience members are invited to bring their own.

The show runs through August 1, Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:00 PM, in the parking lot next to Lower East Side Prep.

Woo’s grandmother came over to New York from Shanghai and Berg’s grandfather came from Eastern Europe, stopping here in the Lower East Side for a few years, before moving to Philadelphia.

The two friends met as neighbors living near an unofficial border between the Lower East Side and Manhattan’s Chinatown. Woo was a creative project developer working for Adobe who took some time off to go to culinary school and Berg was a TV producer who grew up cooking.

On a night out with their partners, they happened to be joking about where Chinese food and Jewish food ingredients overlap, and how their immigrant heritages were passed down from their grandmothers in very similar ways.

The jokes led to brainstorming how they could easily merge their favorite family dishes into new Jewish-Chinese inspired meals. A good brisket is good on its own, for example, but how about brisket in wontons with chili oil?

Before they knew it, they were in Andy’s kitchen testing out a Reuben egg roll and a sesame noodle kugel. They kept testing dishes and riffs on their favorites, emphasizing their cultural stories and intergenerational connections, which led to formal invitations to friends and family to try out full menus.

Once they realized they were on to something that was a lot of fun and offered them both a creative challenge, they decided to give it a go. Their “hidden table series” is now available to the public, at various locations around the neighborhood, with 12-15 seats, 7 courses and wine.

The meals are deliberately playful and hybrid — each dish combines elements from both cuisines and tells a story of adaptation.

The menu at their most recent dinner included: Rosh Hashana Chicken Wontons garnished with tart cherry and crumbled fried chicken skin, Dan Dan Kugel garnished with peanuts and scallions, the now-famous Reuben egg roll with Russian dressing, Manischewitz glazed ribs, Judah’s Lion Head Matza Meatballs served with bok choy, and for dessert, an Ube Rice Pudding with whipped cream and matcha.

But the menu rotates, so returning guests get a new experience each time.

If you’re lucky enough to make it to one of their pop-ups, you’ll find by the end of the meal, a lot of cultural heritage has been shared, new friends have been made, and tasty new dishes have been devoured.

You can follow WooBerg’s on Instagram here and sign up at the link in their bio to get on their email list for updates on upcoming events.

Here’s more about the menu from the team at Little Pine:

“The menu spans classic Dongbei and Northern Chinese staples, beginning with cold starters such as Rainbow Glass Noodle Salad and Tiger Herb Salad, followed by BBQ skewers, a centerpiece of the menu, grilled with the restaurant’s signature chili seasoning and bringing the flavors of Chinese night markets to the table through lamb, beef, chicken wings, seafood, and vegetable skewers. Northern comfort dishes anchor the heart of the menu, including handmade dumplings, Pan-fried Corn Cake, and Candied Sweet Potato, while one standout is Dongbei Crispy Sweet & Sour Pork, also known as Guo Bao Rou, one of the region’s most iconic dishes, made with thin slices of pork that are lightly battered, fried until crisp, and coated in a glossy sweet-and-sour glaze known for its bright vinegar aroma, delicate crunch, and balanced tangy sweetness.“

It’s a large restaurant by Lower East Side standards. The space goes all the way through between Division Street and East Broadway, with entrances on both sides. Little Pine is open from 11:30 AM to 10:30 PM every day. You can see the menu here.

On Thursday evening (June 25) from 6-8 PM, they’re hosting an art opening in collaboration with FLOHAUS Gallery to celebrate Pride Month. It’s a group exhibition titled, “The Warmth In Between.” More details on Little Pine’s Instagram.

Photos courtesy of Little Pine.

The former New York City Comptroller, Brad Lander, easily defeated sitting U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman in the battle for the 10th Congressional District, which includes the Lower East Side. According to unofficial results (with more than 97% of the vote counted), Lander had 65.8% to 34% for Goldman.

Lander appeared at a get-out-the-vote event with Mamdani Tuesday on Pitt Street. Also at the Mayor’s side was Lower East Side tenant organizer Illapa Sairitupac, who prevailed last night in the primary election for the 65th Assembly District. Mamdani endorsed Sairitupac just last month. In preliminary results, he had 36%, or 4,140 votes in a crowded seven candidate field. His closest competitor was LES community organizer Jasmin Sanchez, coming in with 1,993 votes.

Sairitupac is a socialist who ran on a platform of taxing the rich to pay for essential services, creating a Social Housing Development Authority and enacting legislation to prohibit local law enforcement agencies from collaborating with ICE in New York City. NYC Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) celebrated Sairitupac’s win, writing on Instagram, “Socialism wins in the Lower East Side! We’re sending another ecosocialist and tenants’ champion to Albany to fight for the affordable, beautiful future that workers deserve. Illapa’s victory proves socialism still has a home downtown.”

The legislative seat opened up when Assemblymember Grace Lee decided to run to succeed Senator Brian Kavanagh, who chose not to seek another term. Lee was victorious last night in the battle for the 27th Senatorial District. She had 62% of the vote compared with 37% for Yuh-Line Niou. Niou had previously served as assemblymember in Lower Manhattan.

The General Election takes place November 3.