{"id":86539,"date":"2026-01-01T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86539\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:24:10","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-celebrates-inauguration-with-public-swearing-in-ceremony-block-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86539\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrates inauguration with public swearing-in ceremony, block party"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new year began with Zohran Mamdani being sworn in as mayor of New York City in a private ceremony<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thursday afternoon, Mamdani will once again take the oath of office, this time at a public inauguration on the steps of City Hall<\/a>. Along with the ceremony, there will be a block party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mamdani takes oath of office in private ceremony<\/p>\n

The ceremony was layered in symbolism, from Mamdani taking oath on a Quran rather than a Bible to the location at the Old City Hall subway station<\/a>. It all set the tone for a historic new chapter in New York City leadership.<\/p>\n

As millions of New Yorkers counted down the new year, Mamdani marked midnight in a different way, placing his hand on a historic Quran to honor the deep roots of Muslim communities in New York City and taking the oath of office.<\/p>\n

With that oath, the 34-year-old became New York City’s 112th mayor, making history as its first Muslim mayor, first South Asian mayor<\/a>, and youngest in more than a century.<\/p>\n

“This is truly the honor and the privilege of a lifetime,” Mamdani said.<\/p>\n

The private ceremony was administered by New York Attorney General Letitia James<\/a> at the long-closed Old City Hall subway station, one of New York’s original 28 stops, a relic of the city’s earliest ambitions for public transit.<\/p>\n

“A testament to the importance of public transit, to the vitality, the health, and the legacy of our city,” Mamdani said.<\/p>\n

Using the moment to underscore his transportation agenda, he announced Michael Flynn as his new Department of Transportation commissioner.<\/p>\n

“Someone who’s experienced, who is fluent in the landscape as it is, and who is ambitious and imaginative towards the landscape as it could be. And I can think of no better person than the man alongside me,” Mamdani said.<\/p>\n

Inauguration block party set for Canyon of Heroes<\/p>\n

For the first time ever in the city, there will be a public block party to welcome the new mayor.<\/p>\n

It will run along Broadway’s Canyon of Heroes, from Liberty Street to Murray Street near City Hall.<\/p>\n

Tickets are required, and it recommended attendees arrive between 11 a.m. and noon ahead of the 1 p.m. inauguration ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new year began with Zohran Mamdani being sworn in as mayor of New York City in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-86539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-ny","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-nyc-headlines","13":"tag-nyc-news","14":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86539","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=86539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}