STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A pair of the nation\u2019s top left politicos will lead swearing-in duties of the city\u2019s new mayor Jan. 1.<\/p>\n
Attorney General Letitia James will administer Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s oath of office at a private midnight ceremony, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, will do the same at a public event to be held later New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
\u201cAttorney General James has taken on powerful interests in her defense of New Yorkers and embodied the principle of equal justice before the law. Senator Bernie Sanders laid the foundations for our movement with his steadfast commitment to the dignity of working people and his belief in a government that serves the many, not just the few,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cI can think of no better leaders to help usher in a new era for New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n
The incoming Mamdani administration will hold the public ceremony on the steps of City Hall around 1 p.m. New Year\u2019s Day with a \u201cblock party\u201d in the surrounding area where the mayor-elect\u2019s team expects \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of revelers. <\/p>\n
Mamdani styles the event an \u201cInauguration of a New Era\u201d distinguishing it from past mayoral inaugurations that have typically seen a few thousand ticketed guests gathered in City Hall Plaza to welcome the new city executive.<\/p>\n
Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams held his swearing-in ceremony in Times Square New Years Day 2022 after the ball drop. <\/p>\n
\u201cAt a moment when democracy is under attack and cynicism about our politics runs deep, Zohran Mamdani represents a new generation of progressive leadership rooted in courage, integrity and solidarity,\u201d Sanders, a Brooklyn native, said. \u201cHis victory is not just about one city or one election, it is about the strength of a working class movement that says unequivocally: the future of New York belongs to the people, not the billionaire class. It is my honor to swear him in as the next mayor of New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A pair of the nation\u2019s top left politicos will lead swearing-in duties of the…\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-78335","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\/78335","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=78335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78335\/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=78335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}