Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was serving hot chocolate to supporters and answers to reporters at an event near Stuytown to promote his plan to freeze rents on stabilized units.

“The mayor is free to issue as many executive orders as he’d like with the less than 30 days that he has in office, then we will be taking a look at every single one once we enter City Hall,” Mamdani said.

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Mayor-elect Mamdani said he’d review Mayor Adams’ executive orders once inaugurated

Mamdani said he was confident he could secure a rent freeze, even if Adams appoints new members to the rent board

Mamdani said he would do away with Adams’ “homeless sweeps” policy of removing encampments

Mamdani was unaffected by reports that Mayor Eric Adams is considering appointments to the Rent Guidelines Board to head off his plans for a rent freeze — an issue Mamdani said he never raised with Adams in their private face-to-face meeting.

“We did not have that conversation,” Mamdani said. “I am continuing to be confident, however, of our ability to fulfill the promise we’ve made for more than 2 million rent-stabilized tenants.”

On Staten Island Thursday, Adams dismissed the suggestion he was trying to sandbag Mamdani — reminding reporters he’s still the mayor.

“I follow the rules of the charter. And the rules of the charter state, Eric, you’re the mayor until Dec. 31,” Adams said.

Adams also defended two new executive orders: one prohibiting discrimination against Israelis and Israeli companies in city contracting and NYPD protocol for protests outside of houses of worship, following a vitriolic protest near the steps of a Manhattan synagogue last month.

“What happened a few weeks ago was despicable, and it should not happen,” Adams said of the protest.

Then there is Adams’ funding for 5,000 new police officers — thousands more than Mamdani wants to hire or thinks is even feasible to hire.

When asked whether he felt Adams was sandbagging him, Mamdani said, “I’ll let the mayor speak for himself.”

NY1 asked whether he’d direct the NYPD to maintain order during protests of ICE operations. A recent one on Canal Street saw demonstrators arrested for disrupting a federal operation.

“I think the NYPD’s job is to keep order, but it’s not to assist immigration agents in the work they are doing,” Mamdani said.

Homeless sweeps were another policy from Mayor Adams that Mamdani says he will stop once he takes over City Hall. Adams had directed city workers to clear out homeless encampments to keep them from popping up on sidewalks and in parks.