New Yorkers are about to get hit with massive TV ad blitz as NYC mayoral candidates spend more than $600K and counting

Election season is in full swing in New York City.

New Yorkers are about to be bombarded with political ads — as mayoral candidates shell out more than half a million dollars to fill the airwaves in the final stretch of the campaign.

The massive ad blitz is set to start this week as both lefty Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent, air their first TV spots of the general race.

Both candidates have poured $30,000 total just to air TV spots during the Yankees-Red Sox Wildcard game on Wednesday, according to Ad Impacts.

Cuomo has another $45,000 ad buy separately set to hit midweek, bringing his campaign’s commercials tab to more than $434,000 over the next few weeks, the ad tracker site reports.

Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America candidate and current front-runner in the November election, also dropped $35,000 on a spot set to air on ESPN in the New York metro area starting Thursday.

It comes as Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa just went up on the air with a scorching new ad slamming Mamdani and Cuomo, claiming New Yorkers will not be safe if either of them are elected.

Sliwa’s tab of future ad reservations came up to $87,000, while Mamdani was out $83,000, for a total $604,000 across all three candidates ahead of the November 4 election.

Cuomo is shelling out more than four times what Mamdani and Sliwa are set to spend — with the ex-gov hoping to make a last-minute push as Mayor Eric Adams abandoned his long-shot re-election bid Sunday.

Adams, who was also running as an independent, had been garnering just about 7% support in the latest polls.

Cuomo, meanwhile, has struggled to boost his numbers in the polls since his embarrasing loss to Mamdani in the Democratic primary in June.

The ex-gov is polling around 29%, nearly 20 points behind Mamdani, who came in 47% in the last survey, with Sliwa in a distant third at 11%.