Zohran Mamdani

There are some big changes in outdoor dining afoot in New York City. That’s thanks to a new bill currently being deliberated by City Council that miraculously has the support of both Speaker Julie Menin and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The bill, sponsored by the borough’s own councilmember Lincoln Restler, would roll back the Eric Adams-era…

Zohran Mamdani‘s war on negligent landlords is heating up. A few weeks back, the newly elected mayor launched his “Rental Ripoff” hearings to provide a forum for aggrieved tenants to air their most traumatic experiences as renters and direct them towards the appropriate city officials. But he isn’t waiting for the dust to settle to…

On January 1, the “new” in New York City did a lot of lifting. It was, of course, the first day on the job for (then) newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city’s freshly raised minimum wage, courtesy of Governor Kathy Hochul and a statewide 2024 proposal that brought NYC’s lowest hourly rate to…

“NYCHA should be allowed to speak! This is bullshit!” A woman screams from the stage at George Westinghouse Career Technical High School in downtown Brooklyn on an early Thursday evening. It’s the first night of the “Rental Ripoff” hearings, a city-wide series from Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his team, and it’s more or less a…

Zohran Mamdani isn’t wasting any time getting the city’s defenses shored up, as federal immigration enforcement intensifies across the country and makes way to the boroughs. In his thirteenth executive order since taking office, the mayor’s first on immigration outlines a fairly comprehensive disposition towards the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its violent…

Just three-ish weeks into his term, winter storm Fern proved to be a telling exercise for newly-elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Sure, it showed his resolve in a potential crisis—rolling his sleeves up to dig out some cars—as the storm barrelled towards, and then over, the East Coast, dumping stunning amounts of snow and ice up…

New year, new mayor, and a new minimum wage? That’s how New Yorkers are entering these first hours of 2026, with Zohran Mamdani now officially (no longer questionably) the 112th mayor of NYC, and an immediately in-effect boost to the paychecks of minimum wage workers across the city. The clock hitting twelve on January 1…

Don’t look now, but we’re just days out from capping this stunningly scrambled calendar year. By the end of this week, 2025 will be but a strange, twisted, at times even kinda gorgeous, memory. But the end of the year is also our cue for a time-honored tradition here in the BKMAG newsroom: Looking back…

In case you missed it in the pre-holiday shuffle, Zohran Mamdani is not going to be New York City’s 111th mayor when he takes office on January 1, as the city’s official record would have you believe. Thanks to the restless work of a D.C. historian and a Department of Records researcher, we now know…

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story appeared under the title, “Researcher Confirms Zohran Mamdani Won’t Be NYC’s 111th Mayor,” which is technically a true and accurate headline, but, as many of you have noted, feels a little confusing. It’s been changed for the sake of clarity.  When Queens assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is sworn…

In a defining moment for the city, Zohran Mamdani has secured victory in the 2025 mayoral race in New York City. The 34-year-old Queens assemblyman defeated former governor Andrew Cuomo (who chose to run as an independent after losing the Democratic Primary to Mamdani in June) and Republican Curtis Sliwa with a message that galvanized…

At around 6 p.m. tonight, hours before polls officially close, dozens of bars all over NYC will be helping the worried, anxious, and engaged voters of this great city transition into Election Night, the party/memorial/post-mortem on the battered heels of every Election Day since time immemorial. Historically, it’s one of New York’s most energetically volatile…

Days out from the 2025 New York general election, hundreds of thousands of you have already cast your ballots for how the machine runs and who gets to maintain it in the city, but also across the entirety of the Empire State. However, statistically, there’s a good chunk of you (no judgment here) who are…

For many Gen-Z New Yorkers, the mayoral election is not merely a routine political event; it’s a defining moment in our broader social landscape–a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reclaim our government, and by extension, our communities. Faced with skyrocketing costs, growing distrust in institutions, and general insecurity about the future, young voters are demanding bold solutions…

With more than 90% of votes counted, 33-year-old Queens assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is leading former governor Andrew Cuomo by 7.1% in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. And Cuomo appears to have already thrown in the towel. According to Politico, Cuomo conceded the race late Tuesday evening and claimed to have called his…