Zohran Mamdani becomes New York City mayor
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Zohran Mamdani gave his first public speech as mayor of New York City, after an inauguration that drew tens of thousands of people.
The democratic socialist largely struck a collaborative tone — except when it came to the rich — at a frigid celebration in lower Manhattan.
Mamdani promised a freeze on rents and free buses and childcare, building a campaign around affordability issues that some have seen as a path forward for Democrats.
Zohran Mamdani will be officially sworn in as the 112th major of New York City on Jan. 1 some feet below City Hall at an abandoned Gilded Age subway station during a private midnight ceremony. "When Old City Hall Station first opened in 1904 - one of New York's 28 original subway stations - it