{"id":17608,"date":"2025-10-26T21:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17608\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T21:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:19:06","slug":"zohran-mamdani-tells-new-york-business-leaders-hes-ready-to-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17608\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani Tells New York Business Leaders He\u2019s Ready to Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

One afternoon in late September, passersby gawked as Zohran Mamdani stepped out of a black SUV in Midtown Manhattan and strode to a small lectern his team had set up on the sidewalk. A gaggle of reporters, photographers and TV cameramen was waiting, their sight lines clear, on the stretch just south of Central Park known as Billionaires\u2019 Row, a line of ultraluxury apartment buildings so tall they cast shadows over the park. Mamdani was standing in front of one with an $87.5 million listing<\/a> inside: a four-bed, seven-bath excuse to talk about the cost of living in America\u2019s priciest city. \u201cThis is a part of New York City that can boast the cost of an apartment exceeding $200 million,\u201d he said, a world apart from the material concerns of most residents, \u201cwhether they can afford their rent, their child care, their groceries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Location aside, Mamdani\u2019s remarks mostly matched the stump speech he\u2019s spent this past year drilling at parks, church services, mosques, picket lines, rallies and other events throughout the five boroughs: The city needs lower rents, cheaper transit, affordable child care. But this press conference also captured a moment in time, a transition of sorts. It had been about three months since Mamdani\u2019s decisive victory<\/a> in the Democratic mayoral primary and just a few days since the sitting mayor, Eric Adams, had announced<\/a> he\u2019d no longer seek reelection. Mamdani was now firmly New York\u2019s mayor apparent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One afternoon in late September, passersby gawked as Zohran Mamdani stepped out of a black SUV in Midtown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[288,12234,5879,3339,5869,5862,609,75,9,24,55,54,12233,56,1413,87,122,12235],"class_list":["post-17608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-business","tag-businessweek","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-government","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-city-police-departm","tag-ny","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-queens","tag-the-big-take"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17608","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=17608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}