Mayor Zohran Mamdani opened his administration Thursday with an express pledge to control the nation’s largest metropolis as a democratic socialist, saying he wouldn’t soften his politics as he ushered within the “new era.” “I was elected as a democratic socialist, and I will govern as a democratic socialist,” Mamdani stated in his inaugural tackle on New 12 months’s Day earlier than a crowd of hundreds gathered at Metropolis Corridor and at a block occasion down the Canyon of Heroes. The declaration, made on the steps of Metropolis Corridor, set the tone for a speech that framed his mayoralty as…
