Mamdani getting sworn in: NY Times

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So pretty:

New York City has a new mayor

— Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social) 2026-01-01T05:04:26.365Z

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/nyregion/mamdani-mayor-swearing-in.html

The day after he won the general election, Bhairavi Desai, a labor leader born in the Gujarat state of India, where some of Mr. Mamdani’s family traces its roots, found herself crying.

“All I could think was as someone who grew up poor, was raised by parents who died poor, that for the first time in my lifetime I was going to see a mayor that loved poor people — that loves the poor and despises their poverty,” Ms. Desai said.

She added that the corruption that surrounded Mayor Eric Adams and his administration, as well as what she called “the blatant racism” of President Trump, has caused a lot of cynicism. “I think with Zohran, what you see is what feels like this endless capacity of compassion and a real honestness,” she said.

It remains to be seen how far those qualities will carry him, as the tasks confronting Mr. Mamdani are monumental and New Yorkers are famously unforgiving.