Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a Holi celebration.
Picture by Lloyd Mitchell
Saturday and Sunday, March 28-29, marked the 87th and 88th days 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 yesterday and right this moment.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent Sunday celebrating the Christian vacation Palm Sunday and the Hindu vacation Holi after his administration responded to an enormous anti-Trump “No Kings” protest on Saturday in Midtown Manhattan.
He additionally participated in his first annual “Inner Circle” present as mayor on Saturday evening, roasting reporters and taking jabs from the Metropolis Corridor press pool, which phases an annual parody present about metropolis authorities.
Mayor marks non secular holidays in Queens
Mamdani delivered remarks on the Better Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York in Jamaica, Queens, as Christians throughout the town celebrated Palm Sunday. Mamdani famous that the final time he was on the cathedral in August 2025, he was operating for workplace.
He took the chance to debate his affordability agenda, reflecting on the mayoral marketing campaign as a refusal by New Yorkers to “abandon their belief that a better city is possible.” He mentioned the “trust” that his voters positioned in him and his administration to run the town responsibly and with a deal with mitigating the town’s excessive price of dwelling.
“That trust exists because so many in this congregation and in so many others across this city grew weary of change never arriving, and decided to deliver it themselves,” Mamdani mentioned.
He turned to the which means of Palm Sunday, which Christians rejoice to mark Jesus Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem.
“Deliverance does not always have to arrive on a donkey, riding past the mount of olives,” Mamdani mentioned. “Sometimes it arrives from the people themselves.”
He quoted the Bible and mentioned society’s rejection of Christ, saying that too many New Yorkers have “felt rejection” from their very own metropolis. He mentioned that 200,000 Black New Yorkers have been “pushed out” of the town previously twenty years, referring to census information, “because they cannot afford a dignified life here.”
“The burden of building a responsible and prosperous future has been placed most heavily on the backs of working people. And if that is not a politics of rejection, it is hard to know what is,” Mamdani mentioned.
Mamdani greets individuals at a Holi occasion in Queens.Picture by Lloyd Mitchell
Later within the day, he joined the thirty eighth Annual Phagwah (Holi) Parade in Queens, marching with Hindu New Yorkers celebrating the non secular vacation. Holi celebrates the love between the Hindu deities Radha and Krishna, in addition to mild, shade, and the approaching of spring.
The thirty eighth annual Phagwah Parade in Queens.Picture by Lloyd Mitchell 
The mayor speaks to the group in the course of the Holi celebration.
Mamdani takes — and dishes out — jabs at annual ‘Inner Circle’ present
The mayor took half in his first Internal Circle Present as mayor on Saturday evening. Every year, the New York Metropolis press group Internal Circle coordinates a fundraising occasion that includes a musical political roast of the mayor and their administration. This yr’s present, titled “Free-for-All,” took specific goal at Mamdani’s identification as a democratic socialist.
Metropolis & State Editor Jeff Coltin performed the starring function of Mamdani, and former Republican candidate for mayor Curtis Sliwa, who ran towards Mamdani within the 2025 election, made a particular look in a pre-recorded skit.
Throughout Mamdani’s handle, he poked enjoyable on the press and the politicians in attendance, quipping that he hadn’t “been this close to the 1% since the Emerson poll in February 2025,” Metropolis & State reported.
“There is no other room of Andrew Cuomo voters where I’d rather be,” he joked.
Mamdani oversees mass protest response on ‘No Kings’ day
The mayor oversaw the town’s response to mass protests on Saturday, as hundreds of New Yorkers took to the streets to rail towards President Donald Trump and his administration.
Protesters condemned the president’s immigration crackdown, the U.S.-Israel warfare in Iran, his focusing on of political enemies like New York Lawyer Common Letitia James, and his involvement within the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein inquiry.
The NYPD reported that it made no protest-related arrests on Saturday, and wrote in a put up on X that protests had dispersed by 6 p.m.
Mamdani has lengthy been important of Trump and his insurance policies, notably his hostility to immigrants, although he has developed a working relationship with the president and has met with him twice on the White Home.
