Overview
- New York Attorney General Letitia James is set to administer a private midnight oath at the decommissioned Old City Hall subway station, with Sen. Bernie Sanders to swear in Zohran Mamdani at a 1 p.m. public ceremony where Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will deliver remarks.
- Mamdani becomes New York City’s first Muslim mayor, the first of South Asian descent, and the youngest in more than a century.
- He will take his oaths using Qurans from his family, including his grandfather’s, and a volume once owned by Arturo Schomburg lent by the New York Public Library.
- The public inauguration at City Hall includes a block party along Broadway with performances, interfaith elements, and viewing areas for thousands, in addition to 4,000 ticketed guests in City Hall Plaza.
- His transition reported $2.6 million raised from nearly 30,000 contributors and unveiled a mixed slate of holdovers and new appointees, including Dean Fuleihan, Elle Bisgaard-Church, Jessica Tisch, Julie Su, and Sam Levine, as he prepares to pursue an affordability agenda constrained by state tax authority and budget pressures.