{"id":80517,"date":"2025-12-24T22:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80517\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:23:06","slug":"mamdanis-celebrating-himself-on-new-years-day-but-what-about-running-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80517\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani’s celebrating himself on New Year’s Day\u2014 but what about running NYC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zohran Mamdani\u2019s has big plans for a triumphal and self-congratulatory \u201cblock party\u201d following his New Year\u2019s Day inauguration. <\/p>\n

Plans for his actual mayoralty? Meh.<\/p>\n

Maybe he\u2019ll just wave a magic wand to keep the city running.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, numerous important positions remain unfilled<\/a>. <\/p>\n

And his vetting process itself needs vetting: Catherine Da Costa, who he named director of appointments, had to step aside when her vile history of antisemitic remarks emerged, with Team Mamdani claiming ignorance of them.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also selected dozens of transition-team members<\/a> who are tight with radical antisemitic organizations, including the Nation of Islam and Within Our Lifetime, which protests at synagogues.<\/p>\n

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Wasn\u2019t he trying to boost ties to the Jewish community and show how his mayoralty wouldn\u2019t be antisemtic?<\/p>\n

More important, what\u2019s Mamdani\u2019s plan for running, say, the schools, which people will be in charge and what are their backgrounds?<\/p>\n

Who\u2019ll oversee transportation and the hospitals?<\/p>\n

The biggest question: How will his team close what the Independent Budget Office says is a $6.5 billion budget hole that must be plugged by summer?<\/p>\n

Budget cuts? New taxes? Remember, the city will need even more money for Mamdani\u2019s $10 billion in promised freebies, and more still to cover any cuts in federal aid. <\/p>\n

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Not to worry: The plans for the block party are in good shape, even if they smack of medieval coronations, in which the new monarch presents himself to \u201chis\u201d people in a display of grandeur and pageantry.<\/p>\n

Socialist hero Sen. Bernie Sanders will swear in the new Hizzoner. <\/p>\n

Then, seven blocks of Broadway south of City Hall will be blocked off to accommodate an expected 40,000 guests.<\/p>\n

Controversial children\u2019s YouTuber Ms. Rachel (Rachel Griffin Accurso) \u2014 who\u2019s repeatedly posted pro-Hamas propaganda while closing her eyes to the plight of Israelis \u2014 is serving on the inaugural committee, lest anyone forget Mamdani\u2019s central preoccupation: \u201cevil\u201d Israel. <\/p>\n

No food or drink will be sold, but a website helpfully advises attendees to \u201cbring your own snacks, and some to share!\u201d \u2014 a hint, perhaps, of how New Yorkers might handle shortages when Mamdani\u2019s city-owned grocery system runs out of food.<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s certainly expected that a new mayor will celebrate his inauguration. <\/p>\n

But planning a \u201cbread-and-circuses\u201d blowout while his team seems wholly unprepared to actually run the city is surely a bad omen for the next four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani\u2019s has big plans for a triumphal and self-congratulatory \u201cblock party\u201d following his New Year\u2019s Day inauguration.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[302,304,609,9,56,63,65,563,64,299,273,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-80517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-city-hall","9":"tag-editorial","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-opinion","18":"tag-parades","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80517","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=80517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}