The last televised debate before the universal suffrage for New York's mayoral candidates, such as the mandatory vaccine Lake Island Prison, became the focus of the debate

The second NEW York mayoral candidate television debate hosted by the Campaign Finance Board appeared on the 26th, which was also the last tv debate between former Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa on November 2. The two share the same position on issues such as public safety and education, but disagree on issues such as compulsory vaccines, Lake Island prisons, and illegal basements.

On curbing gun violence, Adams said he supports protecting people of color from police abuse, while insisting on restoring plainclothes police forces and stressing that technology such as carry-on cameras will be used to monitor police behavior and ensure that police are assigned to the right tasks so that focused patrols can be targeted against gang members and captured street guns. Sliva noted that he advocated an increase in the number of detectives and supported the resumption of the use of interception and body searches in areas with high crime rates.

Both support the retention and expansion of the Gifted and Talented Program (also known as gifted programs). Sliva noted that every school should have a program to ensure that students of all ethnicities have access to it. Adams stressed that in addition to gifted classes, more similar learning programs should be offered to groups such as learning disabilities. Sliva has made it clear that he opposes whether 5- to 11-year-olds should be compulsorily vaccinated, while Adams has expressed support, but he also claims to consider distance learning options and focus on communication with parents to provide exemptions for students who fail to vaccinate for specific reasons such as religion.

Speaking about whether he supports the closure of Lake Island Prison, Adams expressed support for the current mayor's community prison plan, believing that Lake Island should be closed to give more help to prisoners and prison guards with more technological means and humane care. Sliva objected to this, advocating concern for the situation of prison guards, especially ethnic minority female prison guards facing serious harassment and attacks by prisoners. He disapproved of the community prison plan, saying that gangs of prisoners on Lake Island should be broken up and violent prisoners dispersed to new York State Prisons.

At the same time, in response to extreme weather prevention and illegal basements, Adams said that he would not drive away basement residents, but stressed that the city should count basement information and notify residents before extreme weather, while jointly inspecting the city fire department and other agencies, investment will legalize the basement. Sliva, on the other hand, tends to punish landlords, building managers or property developers for illegal basements to ensure safe housing for basement residents.

The two also discussed a number of topics in New York City, including funding allocation, outdoor dining, congestion charges, taxi licenses, and more. Among them, Sliva said he would cut funds for the Thrive NYC project and reduce funding for the Municipal Education Bureau, while Adams said he might consider taking a small pay cut for employees at various agencies but refused to lay off employees. In addition, Adams favored keeping outdoor dining, which Sliva objected to.

According to the latest polls released by PIX11 and Emerson on the 25th, Adams won by an absolute margin. Of those voters, 61 percent said they would support Adams, Sliva received only 25 percent of the vote, and another 14 percent said they had not yet decided.