Since September 20, the Mamdani administration:
… welcomed the world to New York City. The 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly high-level week took place in NYC — with Mayor Mamdani playing both host and diplomat. Here are some of the global leaders the mayor built ties with.
… won the largest worker settlement in New York City history. The city forced DoorDash to pay $131 million for exploiting delivery workers — $115 million directly to workers and $16 million in civil penalties. The payout benefits thousands of workers who were underpaid, paid late, or not paid at all by DoorDash.
… hosted President Trump at Gracie Mansion. Mamdani pressed Trump on protected status for Haitian New Yorkers and federal support for a prospective affordable housing project. In a subsequent press conference with the president, Mamdani invited questions from journalists who Trump had banned from the White House.
… planted an olive tree with Palestinian families from Gaza. Mamdani hosted a dinner at his home, Gracie Mansion, for Palestinian New Yorkers who have lost family in Gaza, along with refugees forced from their homes.
… announced a new housing complex with 1,000 rent-stabilized homes. The Gold Street complex in Lower Manhattan will have 4,000 new homes, one-quarter of which are rent-stabilized — part of the administration’s plan to build 200,000 homes over the next decade.
… launched free opera tickets for 70,000 New Yorkers. Thanks to a partnership between the Mayor’s Office and the Metropolitan Opera — “Opera for All” — 10,000 free tickets will be released each month for seven months.
… opened the Bronx’s first busway. The busway on Tremont Avenue will speed up trips for 39,000 daily riders. It opened just two months after it was announced.
… announced that the city has planted over 18,000 trees in the past year. The figure is for the fiscal year, so also includes the end of the Adams administration. It’s the most trees planted in a single fiscal year for a decade.
… closed the Urban 20 Mayors Summit (U20) with a global call for city power:
“Global challenges cannot be faced in isolation. The vision of coexistence that our cities so proudly model is evidence of that very point.
When people around the world imagine what humanity is capable of, they look to us, to the music in our streets, to the art on our walls, to the discoveries made in our labs. They look to our cities to see whether the hardest problems can be solved, and they look to us to show them how.”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani (Sep. 20)
Everything Mamdani Has Done as Mayor
Here’s our full list of policy actions and decisions by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his administration, including new programs, executive orders, and more. Each entry is drawn from public sources and presented without commentary. Updated regularly.
Smear of the Week
The smear: At the UN, war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu called Mamdani “the antisemitic mayor of New York” and claimed the mayor is “buddies” with Hamas.
The facts: Mayor Mamdani has raised hate-crime prevention funding to $26 million a year and recently stepped up NYPD protection at synagogues and Jewish sites across the city. He has also described Hamas as a “terrorist organization”.
Bonus fact: A recent Associated Press poll found 44% of American Jews view Mayor Mamdani favorably, compared with 32% for Netanyahu.
But do you condemn Hasan Piker? Netanyahu’s UN speech also attacked Mamdani for meeting with Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, the latest escalation of a tactic pioneered last year by failed mayoral candidate and sex-offending ex-governor Andrew Cuomo: attempting to discredit opponents through their ties to Piker. Amplified by prominent conservatives and now the world’s leading war criminal, those attacks have only elevated Piker as a political player.
Independent media
A Gracie Mansion backyard press conference. Katie Honan (katie) describes the scene at Gracie Mansion, days after the president banned CNN, POLITICO, and MS NOW from the White House. When she shouted a question about protected status for Haitians as Trump turned to leave, he stayed longer than either team had planned.
Mamdani used Gracie Mansion to win Trump over. Hell Gate argues that the mayor tried to secure fresh commitments from the president using something Trump clearly loves but can't have: the mayor's official residence. Trump told reporters the house "feels like a home" and said he hoped Mamdani would be "a great one."
Mayor Mamdani is showing NY what good government can accomplish. Too bad Washington can't figure it out.
Making genuine connections, learning from each other, communicating, bravo!