Mayor Zohran Mamdani, left, with Dennis Vourderis of Deno’s Surprise Wheel Park.
Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 14-Feb. 15, marked the forty fifth and forty sixth days of Zohran Mamdani’s time period as mayor. New York News is following Mamdani round his first 100 days in workplace as we intently monitor 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 at present.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani introduced on Sunday the institution of the Coney Island Enterprise Enchancment District (BID), aiming to bolster small companies with a $1 million funding.
The funding will embrace a “variety of sanitation and beautification efforts,” enhanced advertising and marketing supplies, extra greenery, and power-washed communal areas.
Mamdani stated at Sunday’s press convention saying the BID that “for far too long, the city and state have failed to invest in Coney Island in a meaningful way.”
“That’s true for both the colorful shops that cater to beachgoers and the mom and pop pharmacies that sustain those who call this home,” Mamdani stated.
BIDs in New York Metropolis are areas the place “local stakeholders oversee and fund the maintenance, improvement, and promotion of their commercial district.” Whereas not changing metropolis providers, BIDs purpose to “deliver services and improvements above and beyond those typically provided by the city.”
Not-for-profit organizations run BIDs, and board members should embrace property house owners, retailers, residents, and representatives of native elected places of work. BIDs are funded by charges utilized to property house owners within the designated space along with philanthropy and grants.
The mayor famous the remaining harm from Hurricane Sandy in Coney Island and the rising value of residing within the neighborhood and throughout town. Coney Island is residence to over 100,000 individuals with a poverty price of 26.3% — increased than town’s poverty price of 18.2%.
The announcement comes after the mayor signed a January government order looking for to chop charges and fines for small companies inside six months.
“As we work to transform the lives of working Coney Islanders, City Hall remains laser focused on passing our affordability agenda,” Mamdani stated.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani introduced the brand new Coney Island BID that goals to assist small companies.Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
Mamdani’s 2025 mayoral marketing campaign revolved virtually totally round affordability measures. He promised to freeze the lease on lease stabilized flats, remove bus fares, and open city-owned grocery shops with stabilized pricing. The mayor has gone after junk charges, hidden charges, and landlords in his first weeks in workplace.
Mamdani was joined on the press convention by Coney Island Council Member Kayla Santosuosso (D-Brooklyn), who joined the mayor in signing the certificates of incorporation for the BID.
“Despite being one of the city’s most iconic neighborhoods, the unfortunate fact is that a sad history of government neglect of this area has made Coney Islanders accustomed to going to bat for basic services that the rest of the city takes for granted,” Santosuosso stated. “That ends today.”
Santosuosso thanked her predecessor, former Council Member Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn) for pushing the undertaking “across the finish line” alongside enterprise house owners and neighborhood advocates.
Dennis Vourderis, the co-owner of Deno’s Surprise Wheel Amusement Park and a board member for Alliance for Coney Island, stated he seems ahead “to all the benefits it’ll bring, not just to the amusement district, but also to Mermaid Avenue, which it richly deserves.”
Vourderis stated that BID providers will likely be 5 days every week in-season and three days every week in the course of the low season.
Pamela Pettyjohn, founder and president of the Coney Island Beautification Challenge, thanked the mayor for the “historic” alternative for Coney Island.
“We expect the formation of the Coney Island BID will be important to all of us,” Pettyjohn stated. “Hopefully the BID will carry out our beautification efforts, providing the structure, resources, and long term commitment needed to keep our work going year after year, building on the work of Coney Island Beautification Project.”
Mamdani officiates weddings at Metropolis Corridor, congratulates nurses’ contract agreements
Mamdani shared on Saturday — Valentine’s Day — that he stopped by the New York Metropolis Marriage Bureau on Thursday, Feb. 5, to shock just a few New York {couples} by officiating their weddings.
“I think it’s the best of New York,” Mamdani stated within the video. “You see all these couples — so many different stories, so many different ages, so many different lives, and they’re all coming to get married.”
The mayor himself bought married early final 12 months on the similar clerk’s workplace to artist Rama Duwaji.
Mamdani additionally congratulated the greater than 10,000 New York Metropolis nurses who efficiently reached contracts with their employers final week, ending a weekslong strike for nurses at hospitals throughout town.
Greater than 4,200 nurses stay on strike at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.
