{"id":378718,"date":"2026-10-21T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378718\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T07:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:46:08","slug":"mamdani-can-ignore-subway-violence-for-only-so-long-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378718\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani can ignore subway violence for only so long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QDEC6SDFVZBSDEXBOMNASJ3IOU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Early Monday, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani convened the press for an announcement. A civilian not privy to Mamdani\u2019s advance schedule might have thought that the mayor would inform the public about the latest subway horror: the noontime Saturday killing of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/19\/us-news\/subway-shooting-victim-idd-as-darell-rodriguez-from-the-bronx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">26-year-old Darrel Rodriguez<\/a>, commuting home from his job as a Midtown security guard, shot by a disguised, hooded, and masked gunman who, despite ubiquitous Manhattan cameras, has evaded a police manhunt for at least two days. (He is still on the run.) Instead, reporters who attended and members of the public who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1LrqUiSInFQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined on YouTube<\/a> to see the mayor were in for a spectacle: a grinning Mamdani bounding up to a podium to campaign-style music, against a backdrop of ebullient toddlers bouncing on an indoor jungle gym. \u201cGood morning, my fellow New Yorkers,\u201d he said to adults cheering and waving bright placards. \u201cToday is an extraordinarily exciting day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early Monday, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani convened the press for an announcement. A civilian not privy to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-378718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378718","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=378718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}