Mayor Mamdani's promise to freeze rents for roughly 2 million New Yorkers survived a late-game challenge when a homeowner advocate on Friday night rejected ex-Mayor Adams' 11th hour offer for her to serve on the city's Rent Guidelines Board. www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/02/a...

New: Despite a last-minute shakeup, Eric Adams managed in his final hours as mayor to install a fourth new appointee on NYC's Rent Guidelines Board as part of an effort to derail Zohran Mamdani's promise to freeze rents for the city's stabilized tenants. www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/02/a...

Mayor Mamdani hasn't moved into Gracie Mansion yet and remains in his Astoria apartment for now, his team says. He expects to move at some point before his lease is up Jan. 30. His team also shares this pic of him taking the W train to City Hall this morning from Astoria.

In one of his first acts as mayor, Zohran Mamdani has revoked 9 executive orders that Eric Adams issued after his corruption indictment, a move that undid actions pertaining to everything from antisemitism and immigration to NYC's horse carriage industry. www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/01/m...

A "tax the rich" chant erupted at Mamdani's inauguration while Hochul, an opponent of such a hike, sat on the dais. Asked how Hochul can be convinced, Bernie Sanders told me: "I hope she’s heard from the people here & the people all over this country." www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/01/m...

Mayor Mamdani has issued an executive order revoking all EOs Eric Adams signed after Sept. 26, 2024, the date of his indictment. At a presser, Mamdani says EOs Adams issued after that date were "against the interests of working class people," but doesn't offer examples.

Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji walk onto the dais. Noticeably, Adams barely clapped as Mamdani walked on, as he was busy trying to zip up his jacket.

The City Hall plaza is starting to fill up ahead of Zohran Mamdani's public inauguration ceremony.

Ex-Mayor Eric Adams will be seated next to Chirlane McCray and Bill de Blasio on the Zohran Mamdani inauguration dais. (Adams is being referred to on his name card as the 110th mayor, even though the city has said he is the 111th).

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who didn't endorse Zohran Mamdani for mayor, is expected to attend his inauguration at City Hall set to start shortly, per a source. Schumer will be seated on the dais with other top pols.

Mandy Patinkin just showed up at City Hall ahead of Zohran Mamdani's inauguration and sung with a bunch of kids from the PS22 chorus.

As we first reported yesterday, Zohran Mamdani's DOT commissioner is Michael Flynn. At his inaugural ceremony that concluded a bit ago underneath City Hall, Mamdani made it his first act as mayor to appoint Flynn. w/ @simko-bednarski.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/01/m...

With a few hours left in office, Mayor Adams has vetoed 19 Council bills in a last-ditch bid to block the measures, which carry big implications for immigration, housing, NYPD accountability & more. The Council seems poised to override several of them. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/31/m...

Some of the members tapped to Mayor Adams' 11th hour Charter Revision Commission weren’t asked until this morning if they'd wanna be on it, per a source. The panel, tasked with considering allowing open primaries in NYC, is stacked with Adams allies. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/31/m...

New: The developers behind the Elizabeth St. Garden's long-stalled affordable housing project are rebuffing a call to drop their lawsuit against Eric Adams and Randy Mastro, hoping Zohran Mamdani will resurrect the development once in office. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/31/e...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji are on the steps of City Hall, seemingly getting a rundown of inauguration activities ahead of his swearing-in tomorrow.

New: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's tapping Julia Kerson, an infrastructure adviser to Gov. Hochul, as his top City Hall operations deputy. He's also expected to name a DOT commissioner today, and sources say a favorite is transit veteran Mike Flynn. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/31/m...

Mamdani's DOE chancellor announcement today will be in the same spot in Manhattan where Mamdani was initially going to have yesterday's appointment presser (which was moved on short notice). Begs the Q if yesterday's presser was initially going to be the chancellor announcement.

A source said the schools chancellor selection process has left some on the Mamdani transition disillusioned after lots of behind-the-scenes jockeying for the various different candidates. "That could have been done better," source said. w/ @caylabam.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/30/m...

Mayor Adams said in an appearance on WABC radio a bit ago that he will attend Zohran Mamdani's inauguration on Thursday. "We communicated this afternoon, and he made it clear that he would like for me to attend," Adams said.

Per sources, Zohran Mamdani's expected to name his schools chancellor at this "major announcement" press conference tomorrow.

New: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is appointing de Blasio administration veteran Steve Banks as NYC's next corporation counsel. He's also tapping Elmhurst Hospital CEO Helen Arteaga as his deputy mayor for health and human services. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/30/m...

Mayor Adams continue to play coy on whether he'll attend Zohran Mamdani's inauguration. But at least one of NYC's other living ex-mayors, Bill de Blasio, will be there. "I'll be attending," he told the Daily News. No word from Bloomberg or Giuliani yet. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/29/w...

New: DCAS Commissioner Louis Molina, a close ally to Mayor Adams, is stepping down from his post Wednesday, but will keep getting paid by the agency until Jan. 20 as part of an unusual arrangement that ensures he then immediately gets an NYPD pension. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/29/n...

Eric Adams, in what could very well be his final press conference as mayor, is hosting members of Crisis Management System teams at City Hall to award them keys to the city. They're standing before tables of confiscated guns.

Preparations have begun for Zohran Mamdani's Jan. 1 inauguration at City Hall.

Inbox: Zohran Mamdani will take the oath of office during a private ceremony at midnight on New Year's Eve inside the Old City Hall subway station. He'll then be sworn in publicly during a ceremony on the City Hall steps in the afternoon on New Year's Day.

Mayor Adams still hasn't said whether he's going to attend Zohran Mamdani's inauguration on Jan. 1. In an appearance on WABC this morning, though, he said he's taking a trip to "a nice, hot location" on Jan. 1.

"I think the response to that article is happy new years and have a good time," Adams said just now at a weather briefing at Gracie Mansion when asked about our reporting on his likely forthcoming vetoes.

Mayor Adams, hosting a weather briefing at Gracie Mansion as the first few flakes have started falling, says NYC "could potentially see the highest snow we have had in three years." "The city is ready," he adds.

New: Before he leaves office next week, Mayor Adams is likely to veto another roughly 20 City Council bills that carry big policy implications for issues ranging from housing development & street vending to immigration & police accountability, per sources. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/26/m...

Zohran Mamdani's being inaugarated as mayor in 5 days and has yet to name a schools chancellor. Some historical context: Bill de Blasio named his schools chancellor on Dec. 30, 2013 after his first election. Eric Adams named his first schools chancellor on Dec. 9, 2021 after his election.

New: As one of his final acts in office, Mayor Adams late on Christmas Eve vetoed a City Council bill that would temporarily allow alleged victims of gender-based violence to sue their perpetrators even if the statute of limitations is expired. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/24/m...

A big issue facing Mamdani and his new FDNY Commish Lillian Bonsignore: Pay parity for EMS workers (something Eric Adams promised in 2021, but never made good on as mayor). Bonsignore told me today she's "a big supporter of parity." www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/23/m...

Inbox: Mayor Adams is swearing in FDNY first deputy commissioner Mark Guerra as commissioner in less than an hour. He's announcing this as Zohran Mamdani is shortly expected to name Lillian Bonsignore as his FDNY commissioner pick, per sources.

Mayor Adams is apparently back in NYC and expected to make an appearance with Gov. Hochul tomorrow morning in Manhattan.

A lawyer on Zohran Mamdani's transition team has a history of praising & associating with Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader infamous for bigoted rhetoric about Jews & other minorities. The revelations are contained in a new report from the ADL. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/22/a...

Mayor Adams appears to be in Georgia (the country) for the opening of a new room at a hotel.

Inbox: Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in on the steps of City Hall at 1 p.m. on Jan. 1 with Mark Levine and Jumaane Williams. In addition to the City Hall ceremony, Mamdani's team says there'll be a "public block party" on Broadway with space for tens of thousands more to gather.

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams stopped by the NYC press corps' holiday party last night:

New: At the same time she held a full-time job in his admin, Mayor Adams' ex-girlfriend Jasmine Ray pulled a $100K salary from a city-funded daycare — even though a legal agreement held she was only supposed to spend 10 hours per week on the daycare gig. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/19/m...

INBOX: Mayor Adams officially installs two new members to the Rent Guidelines Board and reappoints two others, a move that could seriously complicate Zohran Mamdani's effort to freeze rents for stabilized tenants next year.

One day after being appointed as Zohran Mamdani's City Hall director of appointments, Cat Almonte Da Costa has tendered her resignation in response to her offensive tweets about Jewish people surfacing. Statement from her and Mamdani:

Speaker Adrienne Adams says the Council won't reconvene in 2025 to override any veto Mayor Adams issues of bills passed today (he has indicated he may veto several housing bills). That means it'll be up to the next Council, under Speaker Menin, to decide whether to override.

First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro's legal work for MSG technically violated ethics law, as he engaged in it while at City Hall, per NYC's DOI. DOI, which recommended ethics reforms in response, launched the Mastro review in response to a Daily News story. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/18/s...

NYC's DOI finds the Conflicts of Interest Board erred in allowing First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro to remain Madison Square Garden's lawyer while at City Hall without a public waiver. This comes after we first reported Mastro would remain MSG's lawyer: www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/14/d...

Hearing from a source that Zohran Mamdani is expected to name Sherif Soliman as his budget director at a press conference in Queens this morning. We first reported on Monday that Soliman's pick was imminent: www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/15/n...

Zohran Mamdani and more than 100 other local politicians are putting pressure on some of NYC's largest private hospitals to settle a labor dispute with their unionized nurses before their contracts expire at the end of the year. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/18/m...

The Council's Airbnb bill appears dead, as sources say a prelim call has been made to not vote on it tmrw. This comes after a messy battle that had Adrienne Adams (outgoing speaker) on one side and Julie Menin (incoming speaker) on the other. Full rundown: www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/17/c...

Mayor Adams' office continues to refuse to share details about his trip to Mexico. But Adams did confirm he was on a plane last night while calling in to Arthur Aidala's show. "I'm on a plane so forgive the background noise," he said (17-minute mark): www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...