Eugene Machlin is 99 years old and will turn 100 in December.
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The Upper West Side resident voted Tuesday afternoon at PS 163.
His first presidential election was in 1940 between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie.
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On Tuesday afternoon, voters clapped for Machlin both inside and outside the polling site.
Machlin wasn't the only New Yorker to prove that age is just a number.
Delia Garces was not going to let anything keep her from the voting booth, not even the number of years she's been on this earth -- 107.
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The petite powerhouse insisted on voting in person in her Washington Heights precinct, as she has done so for decades. And she's never missed a presidential election.
107-year-old carries on long tradition of voting in person in NYC
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