{"id":73376,"date":"2025-12-17T15:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73376\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:31:06","slug":"mayor-elect-mamdani-launches-listening-program-part-of-radically-available-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73376\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor-elect Mamdani launches listening program, part of \u2018radically available\u2019 government"},"content":{"rendered":"

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani wants to hear from you.<\/p>\n

The incoming mayoral administration sent an email Monday afternoon launching the online platform called \u201cThe Mayor is Listening<\/a>.” The platform allows New Yorkers to share information about their lives, their visions for city government and what they need from the Mamdani team.<\/p>\n

The incoming mayoral administration sent an email Monday afternoon launching the online platform called \u201cThe Mayor is Listening\u201d<\/a> where New Yorkers can share information about their lives, their visions for city government, and what they need from the Mamdani team.<\/p>\n

\u201cTell me about your life in New York City. What you care about. What you need. What kind of team you want me to build in City Hall,\u201d the Mamdani team wrote in the email. \u201cIn the spirit of connection and a radically available approach to governing, \u2018The Mayor Is Listening\u2019 is an opportunity for New Yorkers to share their vision for the city directly with me as my administration prepares to hit the ground running on January 1st.”<\/p>\n

The online platform followed a Sunday event in Queens that saw the mayor-elect meet with 142 New Yorkers for three minutes each over an 8-hour period.<\/p>\n

According to the mayor-elect\u2019s transition team, artist Marina Abramovi\u0107\u2019s \u201cThe Artist is Present\u201d performance piece inspired what was effectively a town hall closed to the press. <\/p>\n

Mayor-elect Mamdani struck a similar tone about the importance of hearing directly from New Yorkers during a June visit to Staten Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think too often there isn\u2019t much listening in politics. It\u2019s lecturing,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cWe need to have a city government that listens to the very people who would be served by this infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Democratic Socialist spent most of that visit meeting with employees at local businesses around St. George followed by a stop at a Stapleton church. <\/p>\n

Mamdani, a Democrat, will be sworn in Jan. 1 following the November election that saw him win with 51% of the vote over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat running on an independent line, and Republican Curtis Sliwa.<\/p>\n

Only about 23% of Staten Islanders cast their November ballots for the mayor-elect, according to official results from the city Board of Elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani wants to hear from you. The incoming mayoral administration sent an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-73376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73376","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=73376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}