{"id":121516,"date":"2026-02-03T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121516\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:24:10","slug":"mamdani-in-fits-of-laughter-after-nyc-officials-flee-freezing-press-conference-on-rooftop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121516\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani in fits of laughter after NYC officials flee freezing press conference on rooftop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:The Independent US;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"The Independent US\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"271\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ae90c5b0-7c98-11ed-befe-1be805a50c91.png\"\/><\/a>Tue, February 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6ac371bb7380e9ab56b5aa92a801739a.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This is the moment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/zohran-mamdani\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Zohran Mamdani;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> burst into a fit of laughter when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/new-york-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York City;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">New York City<\/a> officials left a rooftop press conference early due to chilly conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor was announcing the opening of the top of the Dinkins Building to the public on Monday (2 February).<\/p>\n<p>He also discussed the government\u2019s response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/bomb-cyclone-what-is-weather-b2909978.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:cold front that has battered the city;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">cold front that has battered the city<\/a> for over a week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could very well be in the middle of the longest period of consecutive sub-32-degree weather in our city\u2019s entire history,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>However, the cold conditions proved too much for some officials, who decided to leave the rooftop whilst Mamdani was still speaking. \u201cWhere are you going?,\u201d he said as he burst out laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tue, February 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM UTC This is the moment Zohran Mamdani burst into a fit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53263,9,24,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-121516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-cold-conditions","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}