Overview
- Incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani said he accepts the revised numbering and referenced a City Department of Records post indicating he will be No. 112 on Jan. 1, 2026.
- An independent historian, Paul Hortenstine, identified that Matthias Nicolls’ nonconsecutive 1674 return to office was omitted from widely used lists, prompting the city’s review.
- In a Dec. 11 analysis, city archivist Michael Lorenzini concluded the omission should be corrected, while noting that mayoral numbering has long been arbitrary and inconsistent.
- Renumbering would shift subsequent mayors by one, making Eric Adams No. 111 and Fiorello LaGuardia No. 100, with David Dinkins becoming No. 107.
- Officials have not detailed how or when ceremonial materials and official records will be updated, though there is precedent for retroactive insertion, including Charles Lodwick in 1937.