Balloting Light in N.Y., Detroit

Early turnout was light today as Democratic mayors Edward I. Koch of New York and Coleman Young of Detroit looked for record-book reelections in big cities they assumed control of during bleak days in the 1970s.

Koch, seeking a third four-year term of a city that was near bankruptcy and considered ungovernable a decade ago, and Young, running for a fourth term in the auto making center some called “Murder City,” were the odds-on favorites in the first major mayoral primaries of the autumn.