{"id":194797,"date":"2026-04-13T00:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194797\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:49:06","slug":"mayor-mamdani-touts-pothole-politics-wins-in-first-100-days-in-shift-of-focus-from-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194797\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani touts ‘pothole politics’ wins in first 100 days in shift of focus from campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Mamdani touted his administration\u2019s early wins at a campaign style rally Sunday to mark his first 100 days in office<\/a>, presenting a rebrand of sorts from more lofty campaign promises to \u201cpothole politics\u201d \u2014 what he has defined as a focus on tangible results for everyday New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

He also unveiled three new priorities, pledging to open New York City\u2019s first city-run grocery store<\/a> by next year. The mayor also announced the Department of Sanitation will containerize all residential trash<\/a>\u00a0across the five boroughs by the end of 2031 and that his Department of Transportation will start a new initiative to decrease bus commute times across the city by 20% across dozens of key corridors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist,\u201d Mamdani told the crowd of about a thousand supporters at Knockdown Center in Queens, recycling a line from his inauguration speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the mayor didn\u2019t immediately said how much these new efforts are projected to cost the city, which is currently facing a multi-billion-dollar budget gap.<\/p>\n

Mamdani dubbed this kind of governance \u2014 which has seized on a number of loose ends left by the Adams administration \u2014 \u201cpothole politics\u201d in his speech.<\/p>\n

He has repeatedly emphasized the over 100,000 potholes the administration has filled since the start of the year, as well as moving forward on a bike lane project in Greenpoint, progress made toward universal childcare and securing millions in settlement money for worker protection.<\/p>\n

Mamdani was introduced on Sunday by a DOT worker, public schoolteacher and tenant organizer and parent advocate. Sen. Bernie Sanders also made a surprise appearance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you are doing, and what the mayor is doing, is providing hope and inspiration not only to people all across our country, but honestly, all across the world,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n

The new city-run grocery store will be opened at La Marqueta in East Harlem, the mayor said, and will sell goods at discounted wholesale prices.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring our campaign, we promised New Yorkers that we would create a network of five city-owned grocery stores, one in each borough. Today, we make good on that promise,\u201d Mamdani said, adding that his administration would install all five by the end of his first term.<\/p>\n

The bus project seeks to decrease wait times by 20% across 45 busy corridors, the mayor said. Getting trash off the streets in bags and into containers was an initiative started by ex-Mayor Adams but has not yet been funded citywide.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo longer will city government be afraid of its own shadow,\u201d Mamdani said in his speech.<\/p>\n

The mayor, as well as the city\u2019s comptroller and budget watchdogs, have sounded the alarm on the fiscal crisis looming over the city. Mamdani has pinned that crisis largely on his predecessor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess,\u201d Mamdani said Sunday, referring to a Margaret Thatcher quote criticizing socialism.<\/p>\n

Some of the evening\u2019s biggest cheers were for a \u201ctax the rich\u201d chant, though the mayor didn\u2019t dwell too much on his push for Albany to give the city more cash through tax hikes on the city\u2019s wealthiest residents and most lucrative corporations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani touted his administration\u2019s early wins at a campaign style rally Sunday to mark his first 100…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,267,9,24,10,692,12,63,87,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-194797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-politics","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194797","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=194797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}