A year ago, predictions that the most likely contenders to pick up the pieces from the Bill de Blasio regime would be the most centrist candidates would have gotten you laughed out of the room in a New York minute.

Yet, two weeks before the June 22 primary, that is the state of New York City’s mayoral race. In the crowded Democratic primary, whose winner is all-but-guaranteed to take over City Hall, Eric Adams and Andrew Yang remain entrenched atop the eight-person field.

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