{"id":86277,"date":"2026-01-01T05:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86277\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:59:18","slug":"zohran-mamdani-makes-history-as-he-takes-oath-as-nycs-112th-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86277\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani makes history as he takes oath as NYC\u2019s 112th mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor at a private ceremony at midnight on New Year\u2019s Eve, marking a historic moment for New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The swearing-in, conducted by New York State Attorney General Letitia James, took place at a historic, out-of-use City Hall subway station. <\/p>\n<p>Later on Jan. 1, he will be sworn in a second time on the steps of City Hall, while his supporters are expected to crowd the Canyon of Heroes for an accompanying block party.<\/p>\n<p>Watch News 12 starting at 1 p.m. Jan. 1 for live coverage and analysis of the Zohran Mamdani inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old democratic socialist is the second youngest to ever be elected mayor of New York City. Mamdani is also the city\u2019s first South Asian and Muslim mayor.<\/p>\n<p>A former Queens assemblyman, he ran a mayoral campaign heavily focused on affordability. His signature proposals were free childcare, free city buses and a rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor at a private ceremony at midnight on New Year\u2019s Eve, marking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1092,9,24,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-86277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-mayor","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86277","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=86277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}