Zohran Mamdani took office as New York City’s 112th mayor at the stroke of midnight, marking the culmination of his improbable, historic rise to power over the past year.
A 34-year-old democratic socialist born in Uganda, Mamdani becomes the city’s first mayor of South Asian descent, its first Muslim mayor and the youngest leader of the metropolis of nearly 8.5 million people in more than a century.