{"id":41459,"date":"2025-11-16T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/41459\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T18:36:07","slug":"new-york-city-mayor-elect-zohran-mamdani-appears-on-a-special-edition-of-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/41459\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appears on a special edition of Up Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/zohranmamdani\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani<\/a> joined Bill Ritter for an exclusive interview on Up Close on Sunday following his historic win in the November general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 34-year-old state assemblyman will become the youngest New York mayor in more than a century. He will also be the first Muslim mayor of New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It will be a lot of firsts for the mayor-elect, who enters Gracie Mansion with an incredibly ambitious agenda focused on affordability for New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During their interview, the two discuss Mamdani&#8217;s transition, his relationships with Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul as well as US international relations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Up Close airs Sunday mornings at 11:00 a.m. on Channel 7, WABC-TV in New York City and wherever you stream ABC 7 New York.<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE TO THE UP CLOSE PODCAST<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/podcasts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Discover more podcasts from abc7NY here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Discover more podcasts from abc7NY here<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Up Close on our Connected TV apps for Fire, Roku, Apple TV and Android TV. Click here to learn more.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Up Close on our Connected TV apps for Fire, Roku, Apple TV and Android TV. Click here to learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/upclose\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch more episodes of Up Close;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch more episodes of Up Close<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani joined Bill Ritter for an exclusive interview on Up Close on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6305,8409,2400,3650,9,24,55,54,56,82],"class_list":["post-41459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bill-ritter","tag-gracie-mansion","tag-mayor-eric-adams","tag-mayor-of-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459","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=41459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}