As he hit the campaign trail early on Monday morning, Andrew Yang had a message for the supporters and campaign volunteers helping him greet commuters at the Staten Island ferry terminal.

“We’re going to win New York by hustling,” he said, to claps and laughter.

The hustle was on display on the last full day of campaigning before Election Day. Mr. Yang hopped on the Staten Island Ferry at 7:30 a.m., kicking off a tour he’s making of all five boroughs in the final day of the campaign.

With a few campaign staffers in tow, Mr. Yang — whose energy often seems boundless, even on a barge crossing New York Harbor on a dreary day — handed out leaflets and greeted bleary-eyed voters as they rode the ferry from Manhattan to Staten Island.

As has been his custom, Mr. Yang posed for selfies with those who asked. At the ferry terminal, he jogged alongside commuters rushing to catch the boat to Manhattan.

He also spoke to undecided voters to try and sway them to rank him on their ballots on Tuesday.

Joshua Bryson, 55, said that he had not yet decided who to vote for but that he was considering Mr. Yang.

“I wish I could marry four candidates together and make one super candidate,” Mr. Bryson, of the Upper East Side, said after speaking with Mr. Yang on the ferry. His top choices at the moment were Mr. Yang and Maya D. Wiley.

Mr. Bryson, a lifelong New Yorker, said that he had initially been dissuaded by Mr. Yang’s background. “One thing I worry about with Andrew Yang is that his qualification seems to be, you know, that he’s a rich guy.”

He had also written Mr. Yang off because he thought he had leaned into fear-mongering about crime.

But Mr. Bryson, who said one of his main concerns was limiting the power of real estate developers, said he was still considering a vote for Mr. Yang after speaking with him.

“I’m going to do a little more research, to be fair,” he said.

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