Zohran Kwame Mamdani

In office; housing intervention failed at auction

The 38 Emerald Equity Group buildings in Northern Manhattan went to auction on Nov. 10. The portfolio includes about 850 rent-stabilized apartments. City officials tried to steer the sale to an affordable-housing developer, but the attempt failed, Gothamist reported.

Updated Yesterday

Administration plans a mid-2027 lien sale after suspending the 2026 sale.

New York City will sell unpaid property-tax and water debts to private trusts again in mid-2027, Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration said. The sale returns after the city suspended the 2026 sale for a review, and it falls short of Mamdani's campaign promise to stop the lien sale on Day One.

Updated Yesterday

Pushing free-bus proposal; cites EAGLE controversy as evidence

The MTA suspended its 350-member EAGLE fare enforcement team on Oct. 28 after two confrontations with riders were caught on video. The NYPD says it will not step in, so the $3 bus fare is largely unenforced. About 250 EAGLE members have been reassigned to other duties while the agency investigates.

Updated Yesterday

Facing criticism over his handling of policing; retained Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

The New York Police Department told officers on Friday to stop issuing summonses for spitting except in the transit system, and for vehicle idling except when responding to specific complaints. The internal guidance also cautioned against jaywalking summonses, which have not been criminal offenses since 2024.

Updated 2 days ago

First-year mayor; won passage of all five charter amendments

New York City voters approved all five charter amendments on the Nov. 3 ballot, with support ranging from 61.6% to 72.3%. Staten Island was the only borough to reject all five. The measures give Mayor Zohran Mamdani a first-year win and change how the city approves outdoor dining, street projects, property deals and construction permits.

Updated 2 days ago

In office

The B38 bus moves as slowly as 4 miles per hour at peak on DeKalb and Lafayette Avenues. On November 5, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city Department of Transportation announced construction on 2.7 miles of bus and protected bike lanes along the two Brooklyn corridors.

Updated 2 days ago

In office; administration pursuing deed-fraud enforcement

A Brooklyn housing court judge refused on Oct. 30 to pause the eviction of Helen "Queen Afua" Robinson and her children, rejecting the city's first use of a 2023 state law that lets local governments freeze evictions during deed-fraud investigations. The city Law Department says it is still deciding whether to appeal.

Updated 2 days ago

In office

A Nov. 2 report said Fannie Mae tightened underwriting for New York City rent-regulated apartment buildings and Freddie Mac paused new loans. The report said Fannie assumed rents would stay flat for four to eight years and operating costs would rise at least 5% a year.

Updated 3 days ago

Mayor; administration ordered to provide shelter names

A federal judge ruled on Nov. 6, 2026 that New York City must give U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement the names and birthdays of certain men living in its Bruckner Boulevard shelter in the Bronx. A special master will narrow the list to residents with serious criminal histories. Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote that the city had not shown producing the list would be unduly burdensome.

Updated 4 days ago

In office

Work is finished on three basketball courts at Fish Playground in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. The renovation added new playing surfaces, backboards with nets, benches, a drinking fountain and new mesh on the perimeter fence.

Updated 4 days ago

In office; proposed the ballot measures through his Commission on Government Efficiency

New York City voters approved a charter amendment on Nov. 3 that changes how the city reviews bus and bike lane projects. The measure, Proposition 3, passed with 65% support, or about 1.1 million votes.

Updated 6 days ago

Midway through first year; under Council scrutiny over Hunts Point collapse and thin legislative record

Zohran Mamdani became New York City's first Muslim and South Asian mayor on January 1, 2026, at age 34. His early months brought a $1.7 billion child care partnership with Governor Kathy Hochul, a two-year rent freeze and a $28 billion housing plan. His plan to tax the wealthy stalled against Council Speaker Julie Menin and Hochul.

Updated 6 days ago

Won the appeal over his rollout; the tax remains in effect while other challenges continue.

A New York state appeals court ruled for the city in November, leaving the pied-à-terre tax rollout in place. The court had frozen a lower-court ruling that voided the rollout, and the city kept collecting while the appeal was pending.

Updated 6 days ago

Mayor; endorsed three winning House candidates

Three candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won U.S. House seats on Nov. 3. Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier and Brad Lander each won in districts that tilt heavily Democratic, so their general-election victories were expected once they won June primaries.

Updated 7 days ago

Installed Brooklyn's first residential Empire Bins on Oct. 29; expansion to six more districts is planned for 2027

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Sanitation Department installed Brooklyn's first residential Empire Bins on Oct. 29, starting a rollout of more than 700 containers in Community District 2. The district includes Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Boerum Hill; installation is expected to finish by the end of fall.

Updated Nov 2

In office, directing SNAP re-enrollment and nutrition outreach

New York City will raise the Health Bucks cap for SNAP recipients from $10 to $14 a day in January 2027, a 40% increase. The program gives $2 in coupons for every $2 of SNAP money spent on produce at more than 100 farmers markets and farm stands.

Updated Nov 2

Announced the groundbreaking alongside Governor Hochul

Construction began October 26 on a $35.7 million system to recirculate water among the Pool, the Loch and the Harlem Meer. The three water bodies are currently topped off with city drinking water that drains into the combined sewer system.

Updated Oct 31

Committed to addressing NYCHA residents' needs

NYCHA says it has removed the asbestos that a steam leak spread across the exterior walls of two Marcy Houses buildings in Brooklyn, and that air tests inside affected apartments and at a daycare came back negative. Cleanup crews are still working around the buildings in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and four households are staying in hotels the authority is paying for.

Updated Oct 31

Cut ribbon at Edenwald reopening; PACT supporter

A senior center closed for more than 20 years at Edenwald Houses in the Bronx reopened on October 22, 2026. The $8.1 million renovation restored community, senior and child care centers at NYCHA's largest Bronx development, home to nearly 5,000 residents. New York YIMBY reported on October 27 that the work is finished.

Updated Oct 29

In office; championed the pet food program

New York City is giving away free dog and cat food at 22 city-funded food pantries, the first time it has done so. The $500,000 program launched Oct. 19, four days after Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the City Council, the Mayor's Office of Animal Welfare and the Department of Social Services announced it. It sits inside a wider expansion: the city tripled baseline funding for the Community Food Connection, its network of more than 700 pantries, and put $78 million toward food distribution in fiscal year 2027.

Updated Oct 27

Administration defends the extended construction schedule

Chinatown residents and community groups sued New York City on October 21 over permits that let crews work on the Centre Street jail from 6 a.m. to midnight on weekdays, plus Saturdays and 4 a.m. truck deliveries. The plaintiffs say the site is effectively running around the clock next to senior housing, tenement apartments and small businesses.

Updated Oct 27

Has committed to signing the bill

New York City's horse-drawn carriages will stop running by June 2028. The City Council voted 40-7 on October 22 to pass Romanch's Law, ending a trade that has operated in the city since 1858.

Updated Oct 24

As of October 2026: Incumbent; championed the rule

Since October 1, any business selling a subscription in New York City must let customers cancel it as easily as they signed up. A gym that takes online sign-ups can no longer force a phone call or in-person visit to quit.

Updated Oct 12

As of September 2026: Announced the settlement as his administration's largest labor action

About 264,000 New York City delivery workers will receive money from DoorDash after the company agreed to pay $131.5 million to settle allegations it underpaid them. The settlement is the largest labor enforcement action in city history.

Updated Sep 25

As of September 2026: Announced the K-8 generative AI moratorium on September 2, 2026

New York City banned student-facing generative AI in public schools through eighth grade this fall, and Los Angeles blocked it on all district devices. The two largest U.S. districts have reversed the permissive embrace of ChatGPT they adopted in 2023.

Updated Sep 7

As of July 2026: Took office January 1, 2026

New York City finished 38,682 apartments in 2025, the most in a single year since 1965, driven by the City of Yes zoning rewrite and the 485-x rental tax break. The record has since run into complications: permit approvals fell nearly 28 percent in 2025 as tariffs and 485-x's wage rules pushed up costs, and developers began filing permits for buildings of exactly 99 units to avoid the program's higher wage threshold.

Updated Jul 9

As of May 2026: In office since January 2026

New York City logged 19 murders in April 2026. That is the fewest of any April since the NYPD began publishing modern crime data, beating the prior records of 21 set in 2014 and 2017.

Updated May 31

As of May 2026: Declining to advance the existing platform financing structure

For nearly two decades, Hudson Yards has been a major New York City megaproject: 28 acres of towers, retail, and public space built on a deck over active rail lines on Manhattan's far West Side. The eastern half is largely complete. The western half — 4,000 planned apartments anchored by a $2 billion publicly financed platform — just lost its political champion.

Updated May 31

As of May 2026: In office since January 2026

New York City's most visible artificial intelligence experiment — the MyCity business chatbot — was shut down in February 2026 after repeatedly giving illegal advice. But while that failure dominated headlines, the city was simultaneously deploying AI-powered tools across its 311 system that most residents never heard about.

Updated May 29

As of May 2026: In office since January 1, 2026

A gas explosion tore through a Bronx high-rise at 12:19 a.m. on January 24, 2026. Resident Ronald McCallister, 60, was killed and 15 others injured, including firefighters caught in the blast as they arrived to investigate a gas odor. Prosecutors say Samuel Calderon, 55, who did not live in the building, broke into an apartment and disconnected a stove to steal and sell it.

Updated May 23

As of May 2026: Publicly supporting striking nurses

Nearly 15,000 nurses walked off the job at Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian on January 12, 2026—the largest nurses' strike in New York City history. The walkout came three years after nurses at two of those same hospital systems won enforceable staffing ratios through a three-day strike. Now the hospitals want to roll those standards back, while also seeking to cut nurses' healthcare benefits.

Updated May 21