On the last Wednesday in January, Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood at a lectern in City Hall’s Blue Room and announced the city was facing a dire crisis: a $12 billion budget gap, larger than the deficit during the Great Recession or COVID. “It means,” he said,... See more
Kathy Wylde has left the Partnership for New York after a quarter-century. The group seems to be embarking on a new, more aggressive era ahead. When Kathy Wylde stood onstage at her retirement party on a frigid Tuesday night in late January, looking out o... See more
Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, during the new mayor’s inauguration ceremony at City Hall in Manhattan on January 1. As aides trickled into City Hall in the minutes before Zohran Mamdani was set to be sworn in as New York’s next mayor , they loo... See more
This article was featured in New York ’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here . It was a little more than 24 hours after Zohran Mamdani had declared victory in a thunderous speech at the Brooklyn Paramount — one in which he mocked Andrew Cuomo and lit... See more
IT WAS A LITTLE MORE than 24 hours after Zohran Mamdani had declared victory in a thunderous speech at the Brooklyn Paramount—one in which he mocked Andrew Cuomo and lit into Donald Trump and all the forces of reaction that had kept New Yorkers paying t... See more