Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a press convention in Flushing, Queens, on March 16, 2026.
Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
Monday, March 16, marked the seventy fifth day of Zohran Mamdani’s time period as mayor. New York News is following Mamdani round his first 100 days in workplace. We’re intently monitoring his progress on fulfilling marketing campaign guarantees, appointing key leaders to authorities posts, and managing the town’s funds. Right here’s a abstract of what the mayor did.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirmed Monday that he’ll march within the St. Patrick’s Day Parade alongside Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Tuesday, brushing apart questions on any stress surrounding the looks.
Talking at a press convention in Flushing, Queens, Mamdani stated he would attend the annual Gracie Mansion breakfast, go to Mass after which march within the parade with Tisch.
“There’s nothing to iron out,” he stated. “This was one of the easiest decisions I’ve had to make as the mayor.”
Hizzoner added that he was wanting ahead to seeing Archbishop Ronald Hicks once more. The parade look comes after weeks of scrutiny over Mamdani’s relationship with each Tisch and the town’s Catholic hierarchy.
Final month, Mamdani skipped Hicks’ set up Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, regardless of having been invited to the occasion that sitting mayors have notably all the time attended in latest historical past, in line with the Archdiocese of New York.
4 days later, Mamdani and Hicks met at an NYPD occasion and later spoke by cellphone, EWTN reported.
His public look with Tisch additionally carries political weight. Their relationship has drawn repeated consideration in latest weeks, together with after Mamdani’s extra informal description of the Washington Sq. Park snowball incident clashed with Tisch’s tougher line. The episode created a “frosty dispute” between the mayor and his personal police division after Mamdani described it as “a snowball fight that got out of hand,” whereas Tisch referred to as it “disgraceful” and “criminal.”
Nevertheless, the 2 stood lately side-by-side following the tried terrorist assault outdoors Gracie Mansion.
The St. Patrick’s Day Parade is among the metropolis’s most seen annual civic rituals, and Mamdani’s plans to attend come as he’s already being measured by the lens of New York’s parade politics.
Gothamist reported earlier this month that, after telling voters he would skip many parades, Mamdani had begun confronting the acquainted mayoral calculus over which group occasions he would attend and which absences would carry a political value.
Jewish group: Mamdani outlines objectives of assembly with Orthodox leaders
The mayor additionally stated Monday that his assembly later that day with Orthodox Jewish leaders was “set up weeks ago,” looking for to solid the sit-down as routine outreach fairly than a response to a recent spherical of scrutiny over his dealing with of antisemitism-related controversies.
Talking on the identical press convention, Mamdani stated the assembly was a part of a marketing campaign dedication to fulfill with Orthodox leaders throughout the town.
“It is a meeting I’m looking forward to,” he stated, including that the dialog would cowl “a wide variety of issues, including childcare, housing, whatever is of concern.”
The feedback got here after Mamdani spent a part of final week defending his spouse, first woman Rama Duwaji, following studies that she had illustrated an essay by Palestinian American creator Susan Abulhawa, whose previous social media posts had drawn accusations of antisemitism.
Talking Friday in Brooklyn, Mamdani referred to as the rhetoric in these posts “unacceptable” and “reprehensible,” however stated Duwaji had been commissioned by a 3rd occasion as a contract illustrator, had by no means met Abulhawa, and had not seen the posts in query.
Abulhawa later accused Mamdani of caving to pro-Israel critics as an alternative of standing by his spouse and by Palestinian voices.
“You succumbed to forces that seek to pick away at you, at your talented, beautiful wife, and at your work, clawing harder with each apology or concession you make. If you are not careful, they will siphon your soul before you even realize it,” she stated in a video posted to X.
Different Palestinian American activists argued he was attempting to appease pro-Israel critics fairly than defend Palestinian voices. The founding father of the pro-Palestinian group Inside Our Lifetime, Nerdeen Kiswani, stated, “he knows he’ll anger us. He just believes that when the time comes, we’ll vote for him anyway.”
“And if he’s right, every politician watching this will learn the same lesson: you can backtrack on Palestine, throw your own principles out the window, and the movement will still fall in line,” Kiswan posted.
On the identical time, the New York Put up reported that Mamdani was getting ready to fulfill a specific group of Orthodox Jewish leaders in a short session on Monday night, a session some critics dismissed as a “photo op,” partly as a result of main Jewish advocacy organizations weren’t anticipated to participate.
On Monday, Mamdani didn’t immediately have interaction these criticisms. As a substitute, he emphasised that the assembly had been organized prematurely and framed it as a part of the mayor’s regular outreach.
