{"id":194893,"date":"2026-04-13T02:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194893\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T02:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:55:09","slug":"zohran-mamdani-pats-himself-on-the-back-with-100-days-bash-speech-as-critics-call-it-massive-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194893\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani pats himself on the back with 100 days bash, speech as critics call it ‘massive insecurity’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Zohran Mamdani threw himself a great big bash to celebrate his first 100 days in\u00a0office, and even launched a website so his faithful comrades can track his \u201cachievements\u201d across the city \u2014\u00a0despite reneging on numerous campaign promises<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hizzoner headlined his party with a speech at the 3,200-seat Knockdown Center in Queens Sunday evening, where he doubled down on vows to govern New York as a staunch socialist while his staff set up a cringey, self-congratulatory museum pop-up of his fledgling time as mayor.<\/p>\n

Mayor Mamdani taking the stage at an event to mark his 100th day in office at the Knockdown Center in Queens on April 12, 2026. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI have\u00a0thought often of Margaret Thatcher\u2019s quote: \u2018The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people\u2019s money,\u2019\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cIf anything, my friends, it seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 102 days, we have endeavored to do exactly that, delivering both public goods and public excellence,\u201d he added. \u201cThat is the change that government can deliver, and it is the change that democratic socialism can deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u00a0listed\u00a0numerous achievements, including dedicating time to the various potholes paved during his first 100 days in office.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the end of this year, the Department of Transportation will repave 1,150 lane miles of our streets,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cOn day six, when we paved the bump at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge, that was pothole politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf government can\u2019t do the small things, how could you ever trust it to do the big ones?\u201d the mayor noted. \u201cHow can we promise to transform our city if we can\u2019t pave your street?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani supporters holding up signs featuring his campaign promises. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n

Other accomplishments he listed included his pilot program for city-run day care, a proposal to get rid of scaffolding sheds, and modifications to make sewer drains more effective.<\/p>\n

Follow live updates on Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s socialist agenda and the latest in NYC politics<\/a><\/p>\n

Mamdani also announced\u00a0intentions to deliver on a key campaign promise by opening the first city-owned grocery store<\/a>\u00a0at La Marqueta in East Harlem by next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am proud to announce that we will open every single one of these stores by the end of our first term, and the first one will open next\u00a0year, stores where prices are fair, where workers are treated with dignity, and where New Yorkers can actually afford to shop at our stores, eggs\u00a0will be cheaper, bread will be cheaper, grocery shopping will no longer be an unsolvable equation,\u201d he told the crowd.<\/p>\n

His proposal for the East\u00a0Harlem store \u2014 which is already owned by the city \u2014 would\u00a0eat up nearly half of the $70 million he proposed for the five-store program as recently as February,\u00a0according to the New York Times.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Hizzoner also said that his administration will complete an \u201cambitious campaign\u201d for trash containerization across all five boroughs and has devised a plan with Gov. Kathy Hochul to speed up city buses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alongside Hochul, Mamdani announced he will work to speed up buses by up to 20% in 45 priority corridors and construct \u201cworld-class rapid bus routes\u201d for 100,000 New Yorkers who live more than half a mile from a subway or rail stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mamdani told the crowd he has lived up to his promise to govern New York city as a democratic socialist. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n

Mamdani was joined by his democratic socialist mentor Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at the at the Queens event on Sunday. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in a city where every minute counts, where time is money, it is unacceptable that some buses run as slow as five miles an hour,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is why, on the campaign, I\u00a0promise to make muscles\u00a0faster, and it\u2019s why tonight, I am so excited to share that we will cut down commutes by up to six minutes each way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mayor\u2019s party even had a \u201c100 days museum,\u201d which featured a kid-sized podium from his day care announcement, and leftovers from the Taco Bell wrapper and drink he devoured during a March Q&A he gave about fast food worker initiatives.<\/p>\n

And the soaring rhetoric that helped propel the 34-year-old to office was on full display at the Sunday party,\u00a0which was\u00a0attended by controversial anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil<\/a>, a former Columbia grad student from Syria detained by ICE last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome said that once the hard work began, we would forget the movement of working people that rewrote what was possible in this city,\u201d the mayor\u2019s remarks said. \u201cOthers warned that the left could only debate but could never deliver. Socialists might be able to win a campaign, they said, but we could never advance an agenda. Far more wanted to\u00a0believe \u2014\u00a0but didn\u2019t know how.<\/p>\n

Mamdani supporters packed the Knockdown Center. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hold a mighty responsibility in our hands,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt is not just the responsibility of governing with honesty and integrity or delivering relentless\u00a0improvement \u2014 it is to demonstrate that government can fix problems. To\u00a0prove that government can be worthy of the people it serves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mayor also brought Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders out to surprise the\u00a0crowd \u2014\u00a0hours after he appeared alongside the nation\u2019s socialist-in-chief at a union rally Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been on platforms with hundreds and hundreds of mayors and all kinds of public officials. This is the first time I was ever introduced by someone who talked proudly about democratic socialism,\u201d Sanders said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil seen at Mamdani\u2019s Queens speech on Sunday. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the mayor is doing is providing hope and inspiration, not only to people all across our country, but honestly, all across the world,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you guys are doing here is telling the world that we can have a government that works for all of us, not just the oligarchs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Less prominent, however, were the numerous sweeping campaign promises Mamdani failed to follow through on in his first 100 days.<\/p>\n

Among them was his vow to halt his predecessor Eric Adams\u2019 initiative to clear homeless encampments and let vagrants keep living in dangerous squalor if they wanted \u2014 but he did away with that plan after a series of brutal winter storms led to freezing deaths in encampments.<\/p>\n

Another shortcoming included his \u201cDepartment of Community Safety,\u201d which was to have social workers responding to non-violent 911 calls instead of police at the price of about $1.1 billion in funding.<\/p>\n

Mamdani speaking at a union rally in Manhattan on April 12, 2026. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n

Sanders also spoke at the pro-union event on Sunday. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n

Instead, the much-hyped program has been languishing with a budget of $260 million and just two staffers.<\/p>\n

Mamdani still cited the department as proof that his administration\u2019s approach to public safety has been working and exclaimed that murders have \u201chit record lows\u201d since he took office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has not been a murder on Staten Island in more than 180 days. Crime in our city is down,\u201d Mamdani said during his address.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mamdani also proclaimed during his campaign that he would dedicate\u00a0.5% of the city budget to libraries \u2014 but brazenly abandoned that promise, and instead slashed\u00a0funding by $30 million.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s party was just one of several celebrations of his first 100 days, which he reached Friday.<\/p>\n

Mamdani even launched an interactive map of the city tracking dozens of events from his first hundred days, complete with numerous photos of the mayor smiling with happy children and New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

And it all comes just days after Mamdani scored an approval rating of just 48% in a Marist College\u00a0poll \u2014\u00a0compared to the 61% Mayor Adams got during his first 100 days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis whole thing is just massive insecurity about how little they\u2019ve actually accomplished,\u201d an Adams administration insider told The Post. \u201cAnd how much his poll numbers have dropped.\u201d<\/p>\n

One attendee joked,\u00a0\u201cMamdani said he was repaving 1150 miles of roadway\u2026 enough repaved road to go from NY to Miami\u2026 which would be helpful for all the people driving out of town and relocating to Florida!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani threw himself a great big bash to celebrate his first 100 days in\u00a0office, and even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5057,1092,57,9,24,55,54,56,87,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-194893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-bernie-sanders","9":"tag-mayor","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-us-news","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194893","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=194893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}