I asked him and some of his advisers if there were cities that had pulled this off that New York could emulate, places that had managed to meaningfully lower the cost of living. None sprang to mind," the article stated.
The historic old City Hall subway station, a decommissioned train stop that sits below New York City's seat of government, will play host to Zohran Mamdani's swearing-in as the Big Apple's new mayor at midnight on Jan. 1, his transition team announced on Monday. Mamdani, who was in part elected on a pledge to make city buses fare-free, will take the oath of office in the ornate century-plus year-old subway station just as the calendar turns to the new year.
Right now is an opportunity for me to introduce myself as I am, and the focus of what my administration will be. Because it's very much in line with what many Staten Islanders care deeply about - which is not only their ability to afford to live in New York City, but also build a life in New York City.
Only days remain until Zohran Mamdani ascends the throne of New York City, and nearly all his great opponents have given up. Andrew Cuomo, vanquished. Financier Bill Ackman, reduced to congratulations for the mayor-elect and even offers of support. Donald Trump, singing his praises after inviting him over to hang. Maybe the great socialist boogeyman isn't so scary after all.
I started at Kabab King, a 24-hour restaurant in Jackson Heights that's sort of at the center of the Zohran restaurant-verse It's a place that he ate as a teenager, and famously, where he filmed his Mr. Cardamom rap video. A couple of us shared a big plate of goat biryani. It's a little bit spicy, and full of peppers and carrots. I thought the portion of meat was pretty generous for $15.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is reportedly set to swear in fellow democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani (D) when the 34-year-old officially becomes New York City's mayor on Jan. 1. Although Sanders is a registered Independent, he identifies as a democratic socialist, as does Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who also supported Mamdani. Sanders called Mamdani's campaign inspirational, and referred to the former city councilman as a visionary leader when giving his endorsement in June. Mamdani has called Sanders the single most influential political figure in my life.
These statements are not indicative of who I am. As the mother of Jewish children, I feel a profound sense of sadness and remorse at the harm these words have caused,
Nov. 4, 2025, was a significant day for many Americans. As they do every two years, voters across the country carved out part of their day to visit their local polling places and cast ballots in their states' general elections. Often overshadowed by presidential elections, state legislative races tend to receive far less national attention. This is despite how local politics play a vital role in shaping the broader legislative landscape of the United States, one that ultimately influences decisions felt around the world.
As a big fan of citizen science, I have spent the past month conducting a very important experiment. While I am not quite as hardcore as the American virologist Jonas Salk, who injected the polio vaccine into himself and his family before large-scale trials, this scientific inquiry has involved some personal pain. You see, I have spent the last month trying to smile like Zohran Mamdani.
I am absolutely delighted that Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate in Texas. I think it's one of the greatest things to happen to the Republican Party in a long, long time. She is the face of the Democratic Party, she and Mamdani. Good luck with that.
The Daily News first reported that Benjamin Tisch, CEO of Loews Corp., leveled the criticism at Mamdani while speaking at the Met Council's yearly gala, which supports the group's work addressing Jewish poverty. Mamdani has faced a torrent of criticism for his pro-Palestinian positions as well as previous rhetoric deemed anti-Israel or antisemitic, though in recent months, he has sought to dissuade the use of terms such as globalize the intifada.
Those paying attention to New York politics this fall (basically everyone, it seemed) couldn't help but notice that Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani often saw his name mispronounced, misspelled, and generally mangled. All the same, he went from one percent name recognition to the winning candidate, beating by a wide margin former governor Andrew Cuomo. It got so bad that the mayor-elect even scolded the former governor during a debate, saying, "The name is Mamdani. M-A-M-D-A-N-I."
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The city's beleaguered bus riders have languished at the bottom of the political food chain for decades forced to endure the city's slowest-in-the-nation buses as the political elite has prioritized the needs of drivers, businesses, app companies and, frankly, itself. Mamdani has promised to change that, but the history of transportation suggests it will be a struggle to get the people in charge to use their power to make the streets better for cyclists, pedestrians and bus riders.
During his appearance on The Adam Friedland Show this week, Mr. Mamdani, a devout Arsenal fan, took some time out of explaining his policy agenda to remember some Arsenal guys: Sebastien Squillaci. Pascal Cygan. Marouane Chamakh. To some New Yorkers, these are simply names of former Arsenal players. But to others, they are words that, when spoken aloud by someone with Mr. Mamdani's ideological bent, make them feel unsafe in their own city.
Andrew, I was in the room, and I think that you've got to have some admiration for a candidate who ran a campaign the way he did. It was a great, great campaign. He is clearly the leader of the Democratic Party now. Praising Trump, he continued: And I think it speaks to how open-minded the president is, that he invited him into the Oval. Senator [Chuck] Schumer never endorsed him. I don't even know if he's met with him.
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who decisively beat back independent candidate Andrew Cuomo in the election to lead the city earlier this month, has named an arts and culture transition committee. The 28-member group includes curators, art dealers, journalists, and arts and nonprofit administrators. It ranges from Elizabeth Alexander, the president of the Mellon Foundation, which sits on an endowment of $7.7 billion, to Hannah Traore, who launched a 3,000-square-foot gallery on the Lower East Side not four years ago.
I don't want to hear any politicians call each other fascists, authoritarians, wannabe-dictators, communists none of that kind of rhetoric anymore. It's all dead, because if you call someone that, and then turn around and say, But I'm willing to work with them, it looks hypocritical. And there is no such thing as working with uh fascists. That's not how fascism works. Fascism isn't a normal political disagreement.
President Donald Trump has hit the pause button on deploying the National Guard to New York City, with the commander-in-chief on Saturday saying there are other American cities that need it more right now. The president's comments came a day after he welcomed Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who will be New York City's next mayor, to the White House. Trump has said previously that New York was on his list of Democrat-run cities that he would deploy the National Guard to, saying in August he would help fight crime in the Big Apple after he was done in Chicago.
We don't often use the word, shocking, here, on this show. But that is really the only fitting way to describe this headline, as we come on the air tonight. Marjorie Taylor Greene says that she is resigning from Congress. The MAGA firebrand and Georgia congresswoman explains that her very public falling out that has happened, over these last few weeks, with President Trump, was the driving factor in this decision.
President Donald Trump extolled the accuracy of what he called an old-fashioned word as he riffed about affordability and groceries during a chummy Oval Office meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Trump has been fighting a battle over affordability since the Election Day bloodbath, insisting concerns over prices are a con job, and repeatedly claiming he's already solved the issue.
