{"id":333454,"date":"2026-08-31T00:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333454\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:26:14","slug":"large-crowd-contestants-gather-for-nyc-mayor-mamdani-lookalike-contest-in-washington-square-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333454\/","title":{"rendered":"Large crowd, contestants gather for NYC Mayor Mamdani lookalike contest in Washington Square Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A contest was held for men who feel well-suited to be New York City&#8217;s mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Zohran Mamdani lookalike contest was held on Sunday at the arch in Washington Square Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The winner knew the importance of dressing the part even though he said it made him &#8220;sweat bullets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;(I) just put on my regular garb and I took a shower and I kissed my wife and I said I&#8217;m going to the park to be with the people today and hopefully everybody has a good time,&#8221; the winner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The prize was $100&#8211;enough for 33 bus rides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A contest was held for men who feel well-suited to be New York City&#8217;s mayor. A Zohran Mamdani&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,21395,56,63,65,64,7967,15081,82],"class_list":["post-333454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-citys","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sunday","tag-washington-square-park","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333454","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=333454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}