{"id":139190,"date":"2026-02-19T20:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139190\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:49:06","slug":"bronx-leaders-and-residents-take-a-wait-and-see-approach-50-days-into-mayor-mamdanis-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139190\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx leaders and residents take a wait-and-see approach 50 days into Mayor Mamdani\u2019s administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>When Mayor Zohran Mamdani <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/in-bx-concerns-of-affordability-and-last-minute-registration-propelled-mamdani-to-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">secured<\/a> 51.5% of the Bronx vote in November following his primary upset, many supporters said they were drawn to his promises of affordable housing, faster and free buses and stronger protections for working-class New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>In his first weeks in office, Mamdani has moved on several initiatives that directly affect the borough. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/mamdani-50-days-in-the-bronx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tBronx leaders and residents take a wait-and-see approach 50 days into Mayor Mamdani\u2019s administration &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; When Mayor Zohran Mamdani secured 51.5% of the Bronx vote in November following his primary upset, many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[58878,58879,98,100,99,1882,1445,58880,49508,9,24,63,7733,58881,18418,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-139190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-50-days","9":"tag-bronx-community-boards","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-community","14":"tag-mamdani","15":"tag-mamdanis-50-days","16":"tag-mayor-zohran","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-nyc-mayor","21":"tag-office-of-mass-engagement","22":"tag-snapshots","23":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139190","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=139190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}