He\u2019s seeing red.<\/p>\n
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani delivered a fire-breathing victory speech late Tuesday, sticking to his socialist guns and boldly promising to deliver on his sweeping agenda.<\/p>\n
The Uganda-born Mamdani, 34, claimed his historic victory on behalf of all immigrant New Yorkers, and called out Islamophobic attacks on his campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity,\u201d he said from Brooklyn\u2019s Paramount Theatre, launching into a 20-minute barn-burner of a speech by quoting the socialist presidential candidate.<\/p>\n
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani celebrated his election victory by taunting President Trump and sending parting shots at Andrew Cuomo. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Mamdani \u2014 who will be the first socialist, first Muslim and first New York City mayor of South Asian descent \u2014 said the moment reminded him of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, the anticolonialist first prime minister of independent India.<\/p>\n
\u201cA moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance,\u201d he intoned.<\/p>\n
Mamdani, the Upper West Side-raised son of an academic and a movie\u00a0director, also expressed gratitude to the downtrodden New Yorkers who buoyed his political earthquake of a campaign.<\/p>\n
Zohran Mamdani celebrates during an election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York on November 4, 2025. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cFingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns \u2013 these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd yet, over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater. Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyond the triumphant claims of a mandate and recognition of his heritage and his campaign volunteers, Mamdani launched into defiant attacks on the likes of President Trump and Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n
Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji\u00a0wave to supporters after the 34-year-old was elected mayor of NYC. Aristide Economopoulos<\/p>\n
\u201cNew York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change, a mandate for a new kind of politics, a mandate for a city that we can afford and a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mamdani pledged to fulfill his pie-in-the-sky campaign promises of freezing rent for 2 million New Yorkers living in regulated apartments, making buses fast and free, universal child care and launching a Department of Community Safety that will take over mental health calls from the NYPD.<\/p>\n
Andrew Cuomo concedes to Zohran Mamdani at his NYC Mayoral election night celebration at the Zeigfeld Ballroom in Midtown, Manhattan. William Miller<\/p>\n
He argued his vision was essential to uplifting New Yorkers \u2013 immigrants, trans people, single mothers and more \u2013 who were left behind and couldn\u2019t afford to make a living in the nation\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve rather than a list of excuses for we are too timid to achieve,\u201d he said. \u201cCentral to that vision will be the most ambitious to tackle the cost of living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiorello LaGuardia.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The speech alternated between uplifting New Yorkers and going on the offensive against those in power who did nothing but harm working people, namely Trump and Cuomo.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy friends, we have toppled a political dynasty,\u201d he said to raucous cheers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life. But let tonight be the final time I utter his name as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few.\u201d<\/p>\n
Curtis Sliwa, following his concession speech for the New York City mayoral race, shares a quiet dinner with his wife at Arte Caf\u00e9. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post<\/p>\n
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Mamdani then evoked the words of Cuomo\u2019s father Mario Cuomo: \u201cYou campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we enter City Hall in 58 days, expectations will be high. We will meet them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mamdani closed his speech with a promise that he\u2019ll deliver actual results \u2013 frozen rents, affordable homes, free childcare, free buses \u2013 for everyday New Yorkers.<\/p>\n
\u201cNew York, this power, it\u2019s yours,\u201d he said. \u201cThis city belongs to you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s seeing red. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani delivered a fire-breathing victory speech late Tuesday, sticking to his socialist guns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80,153,17353,57,9,56,63,65,563,64,87,58,82],"class_list":["post-29345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-donald-trump","tag-election-day-2025","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","tag-nyc-news","tag-politics","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29345","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=29345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}