{"id":127658,"date":"2026-02-09T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127658\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:11:07","slug":"chris-christie-slams-mamdani-over-handling-of-nyc-snowstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127658\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie slams Mamdani over handling of NYC snowstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie unloaded on New York City Mayor\u00a0Zohran Mamdani\u00a0on Friday for doing a poor job<\/a> of cleaning up snow and garbage in the city after a massive snowstorm.<\/p>\n

During an appearance on \u201cOvertime,\u201d\u00a0the online portion<\/a>\u00a0of \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher,\u201d Christie was asked by Maher to grade Mamdani\u2019s handling of his first major snowstorm as a city leader last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I\u2019d give him a C, because he seemed to move a bunch of the snow but couldn\u2019t figure out how to do anything else when that was going on,\u201d Christie said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t pick up the garbage. All my kids live in\u00a0New York City. I\u2019ve been there since the snowstorm. The garbage is piled up everywhere. But you know the one place that is pristine where the garbage is gone and the snow \u2014 there\u2019s no ice even on the sidewalk? In front of Gracie Mansion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher expressed disbelief despite the audience\u2019s cheers, but Christie insisted it was \u201cabsolutely true.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like, \u2018socialist, schmocialist, take care of my thing first,’\u201d Christie said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeet the new boss. Same as the old boss,\u201d Maher replied.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u00a0reached out to Mamdani\u2019s office for comment.<\/p>\n

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie unloaded on New York City Mayor\u00a0Zohran Mamdani\u00a0on Friday for doing a poor job of cleaning up snow and garbage in the city after a massive snowstorm. HBO<\/p>\n

Mamdani addressed the snow pileup during a press conference on Feb. 2, nearly two weeks after the storm. Andrew Schwartz \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

Mamdani has been criticized\u00a0for his handling<\/a> of street cleanup after a massive snowstorm hit the city during the weekend of Jan. 25. <\/p>\n

Several people reported snow pileups<\/a> more than a week after the storm alongside mounds of trash bags.<\/p>\n

\u201cA week after the snowstorm, and this is what we got, Zoron the Shoveler! Filthy black snow, garbage soup, ice rinks on every corner, cars buried like fossils,\u201d\u00a0actor Michael Rapaport\u00a0wrote on Instagram last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t pick up the garbage. All my kids live in\u00a0New York City. I\u2019ve been there since the snowstorm. The garbage is piled up everywhere. But you know the one place that is pristine, where the garbage is gone and the snow \u2014 there\u2019s no ice even on the sidewalk? In front of Gracie Mansion,\u201d Christie said. HBO<\/p>\n

Snow and piles of garbage bags piled up after the massive winter storm that dropped over a foot of snow on the metro area, as seen in New York, NY, on February 4, 2026. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n

Mamdani has been criticized\u00a0for his handling of street cleanup after a massive snowstorm hit the city during the weekend of Jan. 25. AP<\/p>\n

Mamdani addressed the snow pileup<\/a> during a press conference on Feb. 2, nearly two weeks after the storm.<\/p>\n

\u201cTypically, after snowfall of any kinds, rising temperatures would assist in the melting of that snow. Instead, what we are all experiencing is a cold that is continuing at a record pace, frankly,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cAnd what that has meant is that the entirety of the city\u2019s response is up to the city workers themselves. And they have been doing an incredible job. However, it is a job that must continue, and it is also a job that has required us to go beyond the typical.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie unloaded on New York City Mayor\u00a0Zohran Mamdani\u00a0on Friday for doing a poor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[55149,899,1208,9,56,63,65,64,8555,82],"class_list":["post-127658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-chris-christie","tag-extreme-weather","tag-media","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-snow","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127658","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=127658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}