Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in just moments after midnight on New Year\u2019s Day below City Hall Park in an abandoned subway stop, his transition team announced Monday.<\/p>\n
New York Attorney General Letitia James, a vocal supporter of the young socialist lawmaker, will deliver the oath of office at the Old City Hall subway station in a small, private ceremony. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I take my oath from the station at the dawn of the New Year, I will do so humbled by the opportunity to lead millions of New Yorkers into a new era of opportunity, and honored to carry forward our city\u2019s legacy of greatness,\u201d said Mamdani.<\/p>\n
The stop was part of the first subway line. The New York Post<\/p>\n
The Democratic Socialist said he selected that location because it highlighted the city\u2019s history of ambitious goals, with the station being part of the first subway line in 1904. <\/p>\n
James said Monday she was honored to be part of the underground ceremony.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur subways connect us all, and they represent exactly what our next mayor is fighting for: a city every New Yorker can thrive in,\u201d she wrote on social media. <\/p>\n
The station still serves as a turnaround for the 6 line. Victoria Will<\/p>\n
The station, adorned with Guastavino tiles and sporting stunning chandeliers, still serves as an active turnaround for the downtown 6 line since being decommissioned in 1945, but is inaccessible to New Yorkers unless they nab an elusive ticket for a tour<\/a>, operated by the New York Transit Museum. <\/p>\n Mamdani will follow up on his scaled-down initial ceremony with a block party in Lower Manhattan around City Hall Park that officials have planned for more than 40,000 people to attend.<\/p>\n Sen. Bernie Sanders, a longtime fellow member of the DSA, will deliver the oath of office on Thursday afternoon outside City Hall during Mamdani\u2019s public inauguration. <\/p>\n The Old City Hall station was decommissioned in 1945. The New York Post<\/p>\n Mamdani will hold his private swearing-in ceremony below City Hall Park. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n