{"id":86248,"date":"2026-01-01T05:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86248\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:26:06","slug":"queens-democratic-socialist-takes-the-oath-of-office-as-nycs-112th-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86248\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens democratic socialist takes the oath of office as NYC\u2019s 112th mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/2025-year-in-review-nyc-politics-mamdani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> is officially the mayor of New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Queens democratic socialist and former Assembly member, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/mamdani-wins-nyc-mayors-race-queens-assembly-member-projected-to-become-first-muslim-mayor-in-city-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">elected in November on a campaign promising dramatic economic programs to make New York more affordable<\/a>, ascended to the highest office in New York City at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. He was sworn in during an intimate ceremony at the old City Hall subway station about three miles south of the revelry in Times Square, where millions watched the New Year\u2019s ball drop.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/mamdani-becomes-mayor-nyc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tMAYOR MAMDANI: Queens democratic socialist takes the oath of office as NYC\u2019s 112th mayor &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Zohran Mamdani is officially the mayor of New York City. The 34-year-old Queens democratic socialist and former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[41832,11317,41833,41834,8073,41835,18079,41836,9,24,2695,12,63,1260,122,124,123,41837,41838,41839,40818,82],"class_list":["post-86248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-bernie-sanders-inauguration","tag-democratic-socialist","tag-eric-adams-successor","tag-historic-inauguration","tag-jumaane-williams","tag-letitia-james-oath","tag-mark-levine","tag-muslim-mayor-nyc","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-mayor","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-politics","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-queens-progressive","tag-schomburg-center-quran","tag-south-asian-mayor-nyc","tag-times-square-new-year","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86248","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=86248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}