Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City on Thursday, taking over one of the most unrelenting jobs in American politics with a promise to transform government on behalf of the city's striving, ...

New York City will have a new mayor on Thursday, Jan. 1. Zohran Mamdani is set to be the city’s next mayor. He’ll be the first Muslim and first person of South Asian descent to serve in the position.

As soon as a New York City mayoral candidate wins election – and in most cases for several months before –the city’s political class and media corps eagerly anticipate news of who he will hire to ...