Overview
- He captured roughly 50% of the vote to defeat Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, with turnout topping two million in the city’s strongest municipal participation in decades.
- Set to take office on January 1, 2026, he will be New York’s first Muslim mayor and one of its youngest leaders.
- His program centers on freezing rents in regulated apartments, making buses and municipal childcare free, and raising taxes on corporations and top earners.
- President Donald Trump attacked him during and after the campaign, urged Jewish voters to oppose him, and threatened to curb federal support for the city.
- Immediate challenges include uniting a divided Democratic establishment, reassuring Jewish constituencies, recalibrating policing while working with the NYPD, and securing cooperation from Albany to fund major initiatives such as universal childcare.