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While losing White ethnic, working-class voters, Lindsay was able to win with support from three distinct groups.

First were the city's minorities, mostly African-Americans and Puerto Ricans, who were concentrated in Harlem, the South Bronx and various Brooklyn neighborhoods, including Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville.

Second were the White, educated and economically secure residents of certain areas of Manhattan.

Third were the Whites in the boroughs outside Manhattan who had a similar educational background and " cosmopolitan " attitude, namely residents of solidly middle-class neighborhoods, including Forest Hills and Kew Gardens in Queens and Brooklyn Heights.

This third category included many traditionally Democratic Jewish Americans, who had been put off by Procaccino's conservatism.

This created a plurality coalition ( 42 %) in Lindsay's second three-way race.

His margin of victory rose from just over 100, 000 more votes than his Democratic opponent in 1965 to over 180, 000 votes over Procaccino in 1969, despite appearing on just one ballot line ( see New York City Mayoral Elections )