Like Mike Bloomberg after 9/11, “Zohran Mamdani is another person facing not only a moment of crisis but a kind of tectonic shift. We all feel it in our guts: We’re not in Kansas anymore. We know it’s not just another election, that 2025 is not just another year in history. We’re in a different time, and the appeal of Mamdani is that he’s clearly genuine, and that he comes at a moment when things are breaking up and changing around us as the people who came out and voted for him and caused such surprise in the primary are representing a large cohort of Americans, of New Yorkers, who realize: ‘You know what? Something’s changing. It’s not just it’s time for another election, another off, odd-year election in New York City. It is a time of major change. And we hear in this person that he is connected to that feeling we have that we live in a world of tectonic shift.’ ”
That was Ric Burns, director of the epic New York: A Documentary Film, joining the FAQ NYC hosts on Thursday evening for beer and cider inside the Tenement Museum’s Schneider’s Saloon to talk about 21st century scandals and hopes in the space where German immigrants huddled to do just that in the 19th Century.
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