Overview
- At the Somos conference in San Juan, Mamdani is meeting New York power brokers and attending a reception hosted by Attorney General Letitia James, with plans to return to the city on Saturday.
- The transition operation is led by director Elana Leopold with co-chairs Lina Khan, Maria Torres-Springer, Grace Bonilla and Melanie Hartzog, all veterans of municipal policy and operations.
- His team opened a public hiring portal as it prepares for the January 1, 2026 handover at City Hall.
- Mamdani told reporters that Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel in New York will be held to the same rules as everyone else and that violations will bring accountability.
- Coverage has resurfaced his 2012 purchase of a Real Oviedo share, a human-interest detail that emerged alongside reports on his volunteer-driven, lower-spending campaign that defeated Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa with roughly one million votes in record turnout.