{"id":123472,"date":"2026-02-05T03:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123472\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:44:12","slug":"take-off-the-cosplay-coat-and-get-the-city-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123472\/","title":{"rendered":"Take off the cosplay coat and get the city WORKING"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uh-oh: Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> seems to think the job is more about content-creation than making city government work for everyday New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

The millennial mayor\u2019s mishandling of Winter Storm Fern\u2019s aftermath continues \u2014 first 16 deaths in the cold, then trash mountains stinking up whole neighborhoods and now major road- and foot-traffic troubles as snow piles, turned to ice, snarl traffic and leave seniors unable to safely leave the house.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mamdani sticks to his endless cycle of press conferences to highlight various \u201csmall ball\u201d initiatives. <\/p>\n

Perfect for his future TikToks, not so great for New Yorkers\u2019 daily life now. <\/p>\n

Another bad vanity move: Finding the perfect outfit<\/a> \u2014 a custom Carhartt jacket \u2014 to wear on-camera ahead of the storm.<\/p>\n

Better if he\u2019d worn a Sanitation Department parka and put his time and energy into post-disaster planning, not fashion. <\/p>\n

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Skip wowing the (fawning) press corps with your hands-on approach to rewriting City Hall press releases, too. <\/p>\n

It was fine to boast and sloganeer at your Inauguration, sir, but then you need to live up to promises like \u201cNo problem too big. No task too small.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Shoveling snow yourself was a cute enough stunt (even if you did it wrong!), but getting the big stuff is vital. <\/p>\n

Quit cultivating \u201cinfluencers\u201d and start showing some governing chops. \u00a0<\/p>\n

And if you must pontificate, be ready to answer basic questions: Asked how his proposed Department of Community Safety would\u2019ve handled the schizophrenic knife-wielding Queens man who lunged at cops before being shot<\/a>, Mamdani descended into word-salad then retreated into urging against his prosecution, as if anyone wants the mentally ill sent to prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thirty-five days into his tenure, it\u2019s time for the mayor to put childish things away and concentrate on service delivery, not daydreams of socialist transformation.<\/p>\n

Leave the cosplay and content-creation to the Gen Zers and Gen Alphas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Grow up and do the job the voters elected you to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uh-oh: Mayor Zohran Mamdani seems to think the job is more about content-creation than making city government work…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[302,1015,304,75,84,83,9,24,63,299,8555,4015,29568,82],"class_list":["post-123472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city-hall","tag-deaths","tag-editorial","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-snow","tag-social-media","tag-winter-storm","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123472","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=123472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}