There was a focus on public safety Tuesday in the race for New York City mayor, with two Democratic candidates sharing two very different visions.

Queens Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani believes the key to a safer city isn’t in hiring more NYPD officers, but instead in creating a department of community safety.

"A department that will invest and expand mental health outreach teams and responses across the city. That will further invest in gun violence prevention programs,” he said.

Mamdani says as mayor, he would add trained mental health specialists to the 100 busiest subway stations across the borough and vacant stores would be converted to provide medical services. He also believes the Department of Community Safety would actually help the NYPD.

“Police have a critical role to play, but right now we are relying on them to deal with the failures of the social safety net. A reliance that is preventing them from doing their actual jobs,” he said.

Mamdani told reporters he would raise revenue from the wealthiest New Yorkers and most profitable corporations to help fund the proposed department’s one billion dollar budget.

“This does not have a relationship with any reduction in the police department’s funding,” he added.

Meanwhile, fellow Democratic mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer offered a different public safety solution — focusing on 1 Police Plaza.

“Fix the NYPD staffing crisis and support the officers we already have,” the former city comptroller said.

Stringer believes that recruiting new officers, modernizing work schedules and reducing forced overtime within the NYPD would create real change on the city’s streets.

Also Tuesday, the race’s frontrunner Andrew Cuomo stopped by the West Side Institutional Synagogue, where he delivered an address on antisemitism, which the former governor called, “the most serious and the most important issue to me in the campaign.”

There’s a critical deadline quickly approaching in the race for mayor. Candidates have until Thursday to hand in petitions to get on the June primary ballot.

City Comptroller Brad Lander collected well above the 3,750 signatures needed.