Julie Menin, on Wednesday afternoon, assumed the speakership of the New York City Council, where she is poised to serve as a structural counterweight to the democratic socialist mayoralty of Zohran Mamdani. w/ @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/n...

During his inaugural address, Mayor Zohran Mamdani quoted the great poet Jadakiss and said he would be “outside.” He wasn’t joking. Excluding the frigid outdoor inauguration ceremony, today’s consumer protection announcement in L.I.C. is the third outdoor news conference since Friday.

“In at least 2 visits over the past decade, Maduro’s political message to Harlemites stressed cooperation w/Black Americans, one of many efforts to forge a relationship btwn his government and Black leaders, to the chagrin of Washington.” Via @mayaaking.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...

Eric Adams said he wanted to travel after he left office. Well, the former mayor is wasting no time. Just hours after attending Mamdani’s inauguration, a source has spotted Adams boarding an Emirates flight from JFK to Dubai. No indication if the trip is business or pleasure.

Mayor Mamdani's soaring inaugural address, before thousands of New Yorkers, laid out plans to govern with a focus on the working-class. Here are 7 takeaways from the 20-minute speech, which marks the launch of the Mamdani administration: w/ @emmagf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...

Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist who captured New Yorkers’ attention and ardor, was officially sworn in.

When he became mayor more than 1,400 days ago, Eric Adams’s schedule was stuffed. A ubiquitous presence, he branded himself the mayor of “swagger” who liked “sampling the product” of the city he led. But on his final day in office, Mr. Adams was nowhere to be found. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

Preparations underway at City Hall for Mayor-elect Mamdani’s inauguration tomorrow. Read Nick Fandos on the challenges awaiting the incoming mayor: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

Speaking at New York Law School, presumptive incoming City Council speaker Julie Menin said she was not going to comment when asked whether she would support Brad Lander or Rep. Dan Goldman in the congressional race, saying she was “focused on the Council.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Between transition planning meetings, Mr. Mamdani has been dialing donors and spending mornings and evenings glad-handing with the city’s wealthy, much as other politicians do. w/ @jeffcmays.bsky.social and Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...

Julie Menin, a councilwoman from Manhattan, said on Wednesday that she had secured enough votes to become the next leader of the City Council. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/n...

In the 48 days between Oct. 6, when he landed in Albania, and Sunday, when he is scheduled to return to NYC, Adams will have spent roughly 27 percent of his time thousands of miles away from the city he governs." via @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social @emmagf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/n...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he expected his conversation with Mr. Trump to revolve around New York’s affordability crisis. w/ @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/n...

When Mr. Mamdani was recently asked if Queens had surpassed Brooklyn in clout, he played the diplomat.“This guy’s trying to get me to go against other boroughs,” he laughed. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/n...

Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century. nyti.ms/47O4mT0

“What Zohran said publicly is what Muslims have been saying quietly to us for months,” said Hassaan Chaudhary, Muslim engagement for Mamdani's campaign. “There’s a point where silence becomes complicity, and our communities were done being quiet.” w/ Wesley Parnell www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...

“For as long as we have lived, we have known that no matter what anyone says, there are still certain forms of hate that are acceptable in the city,” he said while standing outside a mosque in the Bronx. “Islamophobia is not seen as inexcusable.”

The two campaign officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said Mr. Mamdani viewed Ms. Tisch, 44, as a highly effective change agent who had overseen declining crime rates and cleaned up a department rife with allegations of corruption.

The first general election debate in the race for New York City mayor produced some memorable one-liners, on subjects ranging from the candidates’ parents to imaginary sports championships. Here are 10 of the most memorable lines.

Since the indictment Thursday, Ms. James's campaign for re-election next year has raised approximately $1 million, 79 percent of it from new donors. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/n...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/n... Like Ms. James, Mr. Mamdani has been a frequent target for the president, who has falsely called him a communist and illegal immigrant while threatening to strip Mr. Mamdani of his U.S. citizenship and slash New York City’s federal funding if he becomes mayor.

After weeks of denying that he would drop out of his long shot reelection bid for mayor, Eric Adams bows out: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

After ABC announced that Kimmel's show would return on Tuesday, Mamdani said his team had reached out to WABC to reschedule the town hall.

“No, no, no. A thousand times no,” Mr. Sliwa said. “I can’t be bought. I can’t be leased. I can’t be rented. I am not corruptible.” by @jeffcmays.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/n...

NEW POLL: The poll found that 46 percent of likely voters currently planned to choose Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, in a four-way race for NYC mayor. His support spans racial and ethnic groups but is especially strong among young and highly educated voters.

Trump Advisers Have Discussed a Job for Adams to Quit Mayor’s Race www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...

McGuinness Boulevard rears its head again: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/n...

Very interesting exploration of Mamdani and Black voters. Finally, observations from a range of Black leader voices who put the candidates’ challenges w/the Black community in context. GIFT LINK www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/n...

Monday’s mass shooting may put concerns over gun violence back on voters’ minds, and have already lead some to scrutinize Mr. Mamdani for his views on policing. “He clearly does not understand what public safety is all about,” said Cuomo w/ @emmagf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/n...

On a sleepy Bronx street, relatives, friends and leaders of the Muslim community that enveloped Didarul Islam came to pay their respects just hours after he was gunned down while providing security at a Park Avenue skyscraper on Monday.

NEW: While business leaders are anxious over the prospect of Zohran Mamdani in City Hall, the Democratic Socialists of America are contemplating how they would wield power and influence policy. w/ @jeffcmays.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...

Mamdani's campaign quickly replied to Cuomo’s relaunch video w/a fund-raising link that received 175k more likes & the campaign received $110k from 2,400 donors 24 hours after the post, its second highest fundraising in 1 day, w/ @emmagf.bsky.social & Urvashi Uberoy www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/n...

NEW: As Mayor Eric Adams of New York City searched for a new campaign manager, he asked his leading candidate to sit for private interviews with two crusading hedge fund titans he wants to bankroll his re-election effort. w/Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/n...

“All of these things sound good because the affordability issue is real,” Adams says about Zohran Mamdani’s campaign focus on affordability: free buses, universal child care, rent freezes. “Nothing is more harmful than promising things you can’t deliver.” (Previous mayor did freeze the rent).

“If I were to use that term on the air, they probably would censor us,” NYC Mayor Eric Adams says on Fox Business News when asked his response to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo asking him to bow out of the Nov. election. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/n...

Keith L.T. Wright, the Manhattan Democratic chairman, backed Mr. Cuomo in the primary but said in an interview Monday that “the electorate spoke loudly and they spoke clearly. Sometimes, you’ve got to know when to show ’em and when to fold ’em.” w/ Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/n...

Speaking on CNBC, Eric Adams attempts to explain away his connection to Donald Trump around the dismissal of his federal corruption indictment, says Cuomo has asked him to drop out of general election: “I’m the sitting mayor of New York and you’re asking me to step aside when you lost by 12 points

How Zohran Mamdani Stunned New York and Won the Primary for Mayor w/ Nick Fandos, Ben Oreskes and @emmagf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/n...

Leaders of the three unions, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, Local 32BJ and the New York State Nurses Association, said they were supporting Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, because he had made affordability his campaign’s centerpiece.

A victory would not only represent a Lazarus-type resurrection for Mayor Eric Adams, 64, who is fond of comparing himself to biblical figures, but would also make him the first Black mayor to be elected to a second term in New York City. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/n...

Eric Adams announcement interrupted by protesters who call him a criminal and accuse him of selling out the city to Donald Trump

In a sign of how divisive the race might be, protesters outside City Hall’s gates chant “F you Eric.” The crowd standing with the mayor drowns out the chants with chants of “Four more years.”

The crowd breaks into chants of “Eric, Eric” and “Four more years” as the mayor descends the City Hall steps.

Outside City Hall where Mayor Eric Adams is officially announcing his re-election campaign. His slogan: “Delivers. Never Quits.”

With the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City looming on Tuesday, the candidates are making their closing arguments to voters: w/ @mayaking.bsky.social @emmagf.bsky.social & Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/n...

“The Democratic establishment, I see them take a lot from progressives but they don’t give a lot back,” said @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social . “That’s why we have Donald Trump in the White House and that’s how we keep recycling people like Andrew Cuomo.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/n...

"The Democratic primary for NYC mayor has tightened into a two-man sprint in its final days, with former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo maintaining a modest but diminished lead over Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, according to a new poll released on Wednesday." Via Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/n...

Mayor Adams says conservative influencer/OnlyFans model Amber Rose brought Sneako, the streamer accused of antisemitism, to Gracie Mansion. Adams wanted his son to meet Rose and Rose brought Sneako. The mayor's reps claimed yesterday to not know who invited Sneako. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/n...

The first day of early voting was a busy one for two of the leading candidates. On the campaign trail with @emmagf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/n...

“You gotta have a fighter against Trump,” the Rev Sharpton says in Harlem with Andrew Cuomo seated nearby. “Don’t bring no punks to the real fight! Andrew didn’t say that, I said that.”