{"id":83819,"date":"2025-12-29T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83819\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:44:08","slug":"zohran-mamdani-111th-or-112th-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83819\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani: 111th or 112th mayor?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mamdani Mamdani to be sworn in by Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a> <\/p>\n

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in by Attorney General Letitia James at midnight, and by Sen. Bernie Sanders during a public inauguration on Jan. 1. FOX 5 NY’s Dan Bowens and Robert Moses react on Newsroom Live.<\/p>\n

NEW YORK – Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as New York City\u2019s next mayor<\/a> in just a few days, but historians say<\/a> the number attached to his title has long been wrong.<\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

While Mamdani has often been described as the city\u2019s 111th mayor, researchers now say he will actually be New York City\u2019s 112th.<\/a><\/p>\n

The numbers have been more a matter of convenience. One thing for certain is he is not Mayor 111.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2014 Michael Lorenzini, researcher with the New York City Department of Records. \"\" <\/p>\n

Zohran Mamdani, New York City mayoral candidate, center right, Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, left, and Brad Lander, New York City comptroller, second left, carry a banner across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, US, on Monday, Nov. 3, 20 <\/p>\n

The discrepancy stems from a centuries-old record-keeping error involving a 17th-century mayor whose second, nonconsecutive term was overlooked, according to Michael Lorenzini<\/a>, a researcher with the New York City Department of Records.<\/p>\n

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NEW YORK – JANUARY 1: Crowds listen to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s inaugural speech after he took the oath of office administered by New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman January 1, 2010 at City Hall in New York City. Bloomberg laun <\/p>\n

For example, President Donald Trump is considered both the 45th and 47th president.<\/p>\n

Dig deeper:<\/p>\n

In a recent blog post<\/a>, Lorenzini said the city\u2019s official list of mayors failed to account for a second term served by Mayor Matthias Nicolls from 1674 to 1675. That omission caused every mayor who followed to be misnumbered.<\/p>\n

“One thing for certain is he is not Mayor 111,” Lorenzini wrote of Mamdani.<\/p>\n

Mayor Matthias Nicolls (1674-1675) <\/p>\n

The backstory:<\/p>\n

Nicolls first served as mayor in 1671, when New York was under English rule, making him the city\u2019s sixth mayor at the time. In 1673, the Dutch briefly retook control of the colony, replacing the mayoral system with Dutch officials known as burgomasters.<\/p>\n

When the English regained control in November 1674, Nicolls was sworn in again, this time as the city\u2019s eighth mayor. That second term was later left out of official records.<\/p>\n

From that point forward, the mayoral count fell out of sync.<\/p>\n

The issue went largely unnoticed until the early 20th century, when New York City began publishing a numbered list of mayors in its Official Directory, commonly known as the Green Book. Compilers of the directory missed Nicolls\u2019 second term and incorrectly listed his successor, William Dervall, as the eighth mayor.<\/p>\n

As a result, the numbering of every mayor from Dervall onward has been off by one.<\/p>\n

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(Original Caption) 10\/6\/1986-New York, NY: Ready to tell the world that NYC has cleaned the graffiti off the city’s 3,000 subway car (it has 6,000), Ed Koch (l) and Mario Cuomo pass through the turnstile near City Hall for the familiar photo op. PH: <\/p>\n

The error resurfaced in the 1980s<\/a> after a historical editor discovered the missing Minutes of the Mayor\u2019s Court from 1674 in the custody of the Manhattan County Clerk. In 1989, historian Peter Christoph wrote that then-Mayor Ed Koch had actually been New York City\u2019s 106th mayor, not the 105th.<\/p>\n

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JANUARY 01: Eric Adams is sworn in as the 110th mayor of the city of New York on January 01, 2022 in New York, NY. Due to a surge in COVID-19 cases, the official inauguration has been postponed, and Adams chose to be sworn into o <\/p>\n

Despite those findings, the official count was never corrected and continued through outgoing Mayor Eric Adams.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, who won the Nov. 4 election and is set to take office on New Year\u2019s Day, initially said he was excited to become the city\u2019s 111th mayor. He has since said he is just as happy to be sworn in as the 112th.<\/p>\n

Mamdani will be the first Muslim and first person of South Asian heritage elected to the office.<\/p>\n

The Source: This report is based on information from researcher Michael Lorenzini and the New York Times.<\/p>\n

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