A few early thoughts on what’s shaping up to be New York City’s first truly competitive race for City Hall against an incumbent since 1993, not just coincidentally the last and only other time New York City had a Black mayor:

It’s wild that there are already two Democratic challengers to Eric Adams in former controller and 2021 mayoral candidate Scott Stringer and state Sen. Zellnor Myrie, who won his seat by upsetting an incumbent and Adams protégé.

Other party members are likely to jump in soon, with the general election once again looking like an afterthought — which says a lot about how many New Yorkers are effectively disenfranchised in the city and state’s increasingly complex and incoherent electoral systems, but that’s a topic for another week.

The city’s primary may seem like a long way off as this summer begins and the presidential election grinds on but time is already tight for prospective rivals who need to raise cash and assemble a coalition for a credible run against a well-funded incumbent, albeit one facing two separate federal investigations related to his fundraising.

The feds will have to either proceed or cut bait in the........

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