John Catsimatidis, the tycoon best known for his chain of troubled supermarkets and his real estate empire, has never been elected to anything. But that shouldn’t matter when he’s running for mayor, he says.

She was born the year Congress approved voting machines for use in federal elections, when Scott Joplin’s jazzy “Maple Leaf Rag” was all the rage, and when, in France, an army captain named Alfred Dreyfus who had been falsely accused of treason, was pardoned.