Overview
- A private oath at midnight will take place in the Old City Hall subway station with New York Attorney General Letitia James officiating.
- The public ceremony at City Hall will feature Senator Bernie Sanders administering the oath and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez offering the introduction, with street closures and a Broadway celebration planned.
- At 34, Zohran Mamdani becomes the city’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest since 1992.
- His early platform targets cost of living with a proposed rent freeze on more than one million stabilized apartments, plans for 200,000 affordable homes, universal childcare, public supermarkets, and free buses, with key actions dependent on independent boards and state cooperation.
- Governance plans include keeping NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and proposing a preventive Department of Community Security, following a meeting with President Trump described as cordial in reporting.