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Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a press conference in Flushing, Queens, on March 16, 2026.<\/p>\n
Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n
Monday, March 16, marked the 75th day of Zohran Mamdani\u2019s term as mayor. amNewYork is following Mamdani around his first 100 days in office<\/a>. We are closely tracking his progress on fulfilling campaign promises, appointing key leaders to government posts, and managing the city\u2019s finances. Here\u2019s a summary of what the mayor did.<\/p>\n Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> confirmed Monday that he will march in the St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade alongside Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Tuesday, brushing aside questions about any tension surrounding the appearance.<\/p>\n Speaking at a press conference in Flushing, Queens, Mamdani said he would attend the annual Gracie Mansion breakfast, go to Mass and then march in the parade with Tisch. <\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s nothing to iron out,\u201d he said. \u201cThis was one of the easiest decisions I\u2019ve had to make as the mayor.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Hizzoner added that he was looking forward to seeing Archbishop Ronald Hicks again. The parade appearance comes after weeks of scrutiny over Mamdani\u2019s relationship with both Tisch and the city\u2019s Catholic hierarchy. <\/a><\/p>\n Last month, Mamdani skipped Hicks\u2019 installation Mass at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral, despite having been invited to the event that sitting mayors have notably always attended in recent history, according to the Archdiocese of New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n Four days later, Mamdani and Hicks met at an NYPD event and later spoke by phone, EWTN reported.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n His public appearance with Tisch also carries political weight. Their relationship has drawn repeated attention in recent weeks, including after Mamdani\u2019s more casual description of the Washington Square Park snowball incident<\/a> clashed with Tisch\u2019s harder line. The episode created a \u201cfrosty dispute\u201d between the mayor and his own police department after Mamdani described it as \u201ca snowball fight that got out of hand,\u201d while Tisch called it \u201cdisgraceful\u201d and \u201ccriminal.\u201d <\/p>\n However, the two stood recently side-by-side following the attempted terrorist attack outside Gracie Mansion.\n<\/p>\n The St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade is one of the city\u2019s most visible annual civic rituals, and Mamdani\u2019s plans to attend come as he is already being measured through the lens of New York\u2019s parade politics.<\/p>\n Gothamist<\/a> reported earlier this month that, after telling voters he would skip many parades, Mamdani had begun confronting the familiar mayoral calculus over which community events he would attend and which absences would carry a political cost.<\/p>\n Jewish community: Mamdani outlines goals of meeting with Orthodox leaders<\/p>\n The mayor also said Monday that his meeting later that day with Orthodox Jewish leaders was \u201cset up weeks ago,\u201d seeking to cast the sit-down as routine outreach rather than a response to a fresh round of scrutiny over his handling of antisemitism-related controversies.<\/p>\n Speaking at the same press conference, Mamdani said the meeting was part of a campaign commitment to meet with Orthodox leaders across the city.\n<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a meeting I\u2019m looking forward to,\u201d he said, adding that the conversation would cover \u201ca wide variety of issues, including childcare, housing, whatever is of concern.\u201d<\/p>\n The comments came after Mamdani spent part of last week defending his wife, first lady Rama Duwaji, following reports that she had illustrated an essay by Palestinian American author Susan Abulhawa<\/a>, whose past social media posts had drawn accusations of antisemitism.\u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking Friday in Brooklyn, Mamdani called the rhetoric in those posts \u201cunacceptable\u201d and \u201creprehensible,\u201d but said Duwaji had been commissioned by a third party as a freelance illustrator, had never met Abulhawa, and had not seen the posts in question.<\/p>\n Abulhawa later accused Mamdani of caving to pro-Israel critics instead of standing by his wife and by Palestinian voices.\n<\/p>\n