Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks in regards to the excessive chilly in New York Metropolis from the roof of the David Dinkins Municipal Constructing in Manhattan on Feb. 2, 2026, as Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal seems on.
Picture by Lloyd Mitchell
Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 7-Feb. 8, marked the thirty eighth and thirty ninth days of Zohran Mamdani’s time period as mayor. New York News is following Mamdani round his first 100 days in workplace as we carefully observe his progress on fulfilling marketing campaign guarantees, appointing key leaders to authorities posts, and managing town’s funds. Right here’s a abstract of what the mayor did yesterday and in the present day.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent a lot of the weekend on an consciousness marketing campaign about brutal temperatures hitting New York Metropolis, urging New Yorkers to remain inside and look out for one another.
Saturday evening marked the coldest evening of winter thus far, with temperatures dropping into the low single digits all through the 5 boroughs. The Nationwide Climate Service issued an excessive chilly warning within the tri-state space lasting by way of Sunday afternoon.
Mamdani visited Staten Island firefighters and emergency medical service employees on Saturday to thank them for his or her work and to debate how New Yorkers ought to put together for the freezing weekend temperatures.
“If you are still outside, please come inside. Being outdoors for even a brief period of time can be lethal,” Mamdani stated. “City government is doing everything in its power to keep vulnerable New Yorkers safe and warm during this winter weather crisis. The cold is persistent, but so is this city. Let’s keep looking out for one another. Stay safe. Check on your neighbors. And if you see someone in need, please call 311.”
Mamdani additionally directed metropolis businesses on Saturday to double down on the visibility of signage and labeling of warming automobiles and facilities, that are open to all people in want of shelter. The Division of Schooling introduced on Friday that it’s supporting the opening of two new warming facilities in Far Rockaway and Washington Heights, bringing the overall variety of warming facilities throughout the 5 boroughs to 10.
Mamdani’s administration has deployed over 150 extra outreach employees, the administration introduced Saturday, supplementing over 400 Division of Homeless Companies outreach workers already working across the clock, to conduct outreach to homeless people all through the weekend.
The administration introduced Saturday that town has made greater than 1,300 shelter placements and involuntarily transported 29 New Yorkers as of Jan. 19.
“This is some of the coldest weather that our city has seen,” Mamdani stated Saturday. “What we’re doing at this time is doubling down on all of our efforts to connect any New Yorker who’s outside with shelter, with warmth, and with safety.”
Since a snowstorm two weeks in the past that plunged town into an prolonged chilly snap, 17 New Yorkers have died, with hypothermia taking part in a job in a minimum of 13 deaths. Town declared a Code Blue forward of the snowstorm that has largely remained in impact since, which ramps up authorities efforts to get homeless New Yorkers inside.
Town has adjusted its 311 protocol all through the chilly snap, shifting to make response instances sooner and permit callers to extra rapidly join with emergency responders. Town’s longstanding coverage throughout a Code Blue is to ask New Yorkers to name 311 in the event that they see somebody exterior in want, join that caller to 911, and reply accordingly.
In response to a query at a Friday press convention concerning why New Yorkers usually are not requested to name 911 straight as a substitute of ready to be transferred, Mamdani stated his administration would reevaluate the coverage after the chilly snap ends.
The mayor had no occasions or appearances on his public schedule Sunday.
Saturday’s enhancements got here on the heels of a slew of latest chilly preparations Mamdani had introduced Friday, together with the opening of latest resort shelter items, extra warming services, a peer outreach program, and an consciousness marketing campaign.
Mamdani introduced on Friday a collaboration with 311 to “cut the amount of time in half that it takes to call for help for a homeless individual.”
“Though a couple afternoons may have slipped above freezing this week, 34 degrees is the balmiest it has been,” Mamdani stated Friday.
The mayor additionally introduced on Friday that town opened 64 new resort shelter items for homeless people who’re uncomfortable staying in a standard shelter, a transfer to get as many New Yorkers inside as doable.
He stated {that a} complete of 65 warming services can be open over the weekend and that NYC Well being + Hospitals’ cellular warming outreach initiative expanded to 33 cellular items. Town can be beginning a pilot “peer outreach” initiative by way of the Division of Homeless Companies that deploys previously homeless people to conduct avenue outreach and “build trust” with those that are nonetheless within the chilly.
And, Mamdani stated, a direct, recorded enchantment might be displayed on LinkNYC screens exhibiting the mayor asking these exterior to come back to a warming heart. Screens will even show a map to the closest warming heart.
