After a wrongful conviction in a notorious rape, Yusef Salaam was freed and won an election. His case was part of a wave of exonerations created by the discredited police tactics of a long-ago New York.
Mr. Salaam was one of the Central Park Five who were wrongly convicted and then exonerated in the rape and assault of a jogger in Central Park in 1989.
Three moderate Democrats are running to replace Kristin Richardson Jordan, one of the city’s most left-leaning politicians, who is not seeking re-election.