{"id":191888,"date":"2026-04-10T07:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191888\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:08:06","slug":"mayor-mamdani-answers-questions-from-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191888\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani Answers Questions From New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cHow are you feeling about answering some questions from New Yorkers?\u201d \u201cIt depends on the questions, I guess.\u201d \u201cYour first question is from Emma.\u201d \u201cOK.\u201d \u201cMy question for the mayor is are we going to see the citywide grocery stores because I\u2019m dealing with a lot of inflation?\u201d \u201cYes, we are. We are hard at work at delivering on our pilot of one city-run grocery store in each borough with reduced prices for New Yorkers, and we will be excited to share some more news soon.\u201d \u201cMr. Mayor, I think you\u2019re doing an amazing job so far in terms of allocating budget towards housing unhoused folks. My question for you, though, is it seems to be a bit more temporary leaning. So what\u2019s your long-term plan to get New Yorkers off the street?\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a very important question. We are looking to build as much housing as possible. And so we\u2019ve already approved thousands of new units of housing across the city. And some of this housing, we\u2019re building it to be affordable enough to rent. Some of it we\u2019re building it to be affordable enough to own. And this is kind of all-of-the-above approach we\u2019re going to take to make sure that New Yorkers can continue to afford to live in the most expensive city in the United States of America.\u201d \u201cHow is he going to go about the free buses?\u201d \u201cSo we\u2019re going to make buses fast and free. The city controls the streets in New York City. The state controls the M.T.A. So our job\u2019s first is to make them fast. We\u2019ve made more than 100,000 bus-rider commuters faster over these last 100 days, and we\u2019re working with the state to start to make those buses free.\u201d \u201cThe mayor on the campaign trail pledged to increase public library funding to half a percent of the city budget, but the preliminary budget was released and, in fact, the public library budget was reduced even from what Eric Adams gave us in the last administration. So my question is, will the mayor plan to uphold his campaign promise to increase library funding to half a percent?\u201d \u201cSome of the percentages are ones that we will achieve over a period of time. However, the conversation around increasing library funding is far from over. We\u2019ve had a preliminary budget, we have an executive budget, and then we have an adopted one.\u201d \u201cHi, Mr. Mayor, I\u2019m wondering if you plan to utilize the N.Y.P.D. services in a better way than having them stand around in the subway stations doing nothing?\u201d \u201cThank you, Hector, for your question. I will say that we have hard-working members of the men and women of the N.Y.P.D. who have been a large part of delivering record-low crime numbers across our city over these first three months in office. We\u2019ve seen record-low numbers of murder in recorded history, joint-record lows on shootings in recorded history, major crimes being down, as well as burglary. And that\u2019s the focus that\u2019s going to continue. The most important thing is that our work actually be informed by New Yorkers themselves. We have to get out of City Hall and hear from New Yorkers, directly. And these are the kinds of questions that we need to be answering. So I appreciate The Times for putting it together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHow are you feeling about answering some questions from New Yorkers?\u201d \u201cIt depends on the questions, I guess.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5539,9,24,55,54,56,5538,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-191888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-mayoral-races","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nycnew-york-city","15":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191888","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=191888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}