Wednesday, Feb. 3, marked the thirty fifth day 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 in the present day.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s film-director mom’s identify was talked about a number of instances within the newly launched trove of paperwork tied to late pedophile and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, prompting a slew of misinformation on-line that Hizzoner stated Wednesday is “incredibly difficult.”
AI-generated photographs depicting Mamdani as a toddler alongside his mom, Mira Nair, and Epstein started circulating on-line following the newest doc drop by the Division of Justice.
Different mentions within the recordsdata solely reference her as being on the visitor checklist for movie business events that Epstein had proven curiosity in attending.
Regardless of this, AI-generated photographs started circulating late final week. Proper-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was amongst these sharing the pretend photographs to his 4.4 million followers on his X account, falsely claiming Mamdani “may be the illegitimate son of Epstein.”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat down with QNS, an affiliate of New York News, on Feb. 4, 2026, to dicusss NYCHA and his many initiatives to maintain residents heat through the winter months and funky through the summer season months.Picture by Lloyd Mitchell
The paperwork themselves point out Nair attending an afterparty at Ghislaine Maxwell’s Manhattan townhouse for her 2009 movie “Amelia.”
At an unrelated Feb. 4 press convention, when requested concerning the posts, Mamdani responded that it’s “incredibly difficult to see images that you know to be fake, that are patently photoshopped and AI-generated, and yet can reach across the entirety of the world in an era of misinformation.”
He added, “There’s the old adage about how quickly a lie can spread in comparison to the truth.”
The mayor additionally famous broader considerations about AI, saying he had been “having a policy conversation with our school’s chancellor and his team on the question of AI within our school system” and that Gov. Kathy Hochul had lately proposed laws for AI in elections.
Mamdani referred to as the present system “ill-equipped for the speed and the reach of the technologies in front of us” and emphasised the necessity for regulatory frameworks on the metropolis, state, and nationwide ranges.
“I think what we have to know is what the truth is. We share it with those and then we also have to work to ensure that we have a city, we have a state, we have a country that actually has a regulatory system when it comes to AI, because frankly, what it looks like today is a system that is ill equipped for the speed and the reach of the technologies in front of us,” he stated.
Code Blue: One other New Yorker dies within the chilly, Mamdani says
The demise toll for the New Yorkers who’ve died open air through the metropolis’s ongoing Code Blue rose to 17 on Wednesday, Mayor Mamdani confirmed.
Preliminary findings indicated hypothermia performed a job in 13 instances; three look like overdose-related deaths, whereas one stays underneath investigation, he stated.
“Each of these lives lost is a tragedy, and my heart is with the families who mourn their loved ones,” the mayor stated.
Mamdani described the present chilly spell as “one of the coldest conditions that the city has faced in its recorded history” and stated metropolis companies have been working across the clock to guard weak and homeless New Yorkers.
For the reason that code blue was declared on Jan. 19, greater than 1,100 residents have been positioned in shelters and secure havens, together with 20 who have been involuntarily transported after being deemed a hazard to themselves or others.
The mayor additionally addressed complaints about gradual or complicated 311 responses, pledging enhancements.
“We are continuing to follow up to make sure that these are the operations that are operating at the best possible level,” he stated, emphasizing that protecting New Yorkers secure in excessive chilly requires maximizing each useful resource, together with warming buses, warming facilities, and secure haven websites.
Constructing on these efforts, Mamdani introduced Wednesday that LinkNYC terminals throughout town are broadcasting a public service announcement urging homeless New Yorkers to come back indoors. The PSA explains methods to use the kiosks to name 311 or join on to 911 for emergencies, offering a lifeline to warming shelters and different metropolis companies.
“With temperatures this low, being outside can be life-threatening. These kiosks are everywhere, they’re free to use, and they can be a lifeline,” Mamdani stated.
NYCHA: Pumped up
Mamdani was in Rockaway on Wednesday to announce a $38.4 million funding to put in electrical warmth pumps at NYCHA’s Seaside forty first Road Homes improvement in Edgemere as a part of efforts to convey dependable heating to NYCHA tenants throughout town.
Mamdani stated the eco-friendly electrical warmth pumps, put in at Woodside Homes in 2023, would offer dependable warmth to all 712 models on the Seaside forty first Road improvement.
The brand new pumps will substitute conventional pumps powered by pure fuel, which Mamdani stated would offer extra dependable, inexpensive, and environmentally-friendly warmth for NYCHA residents. He added that it will take two years to put in the brand new pumps in any respect 712 models within the improvement.
Citing knowledge from the Woodside Homes pilot program, Mamdani stated the brand new electrical pumps had yielded 87% in vitality financial savings whereas additionally permitting residents to warmth their residences in winter and forestall their properties from overheating in summer season. The pumps will even enhance scorching water reliability and permit residents to regulate temperatures of their properties, he stated.
Then again, conventional pumps powered by pure fuel typically fail to correctly warmth residences on chilly days however create sweltering situations in the summertime, in line with the mayor’s workplace.
The mayor additionally introduced that the pumps will probably be put in in 10,000 NYCHA residences by 2030, with plans to finally equip all 177,000 NYCHA residences with electrical pumps. Mamdani didn’t have an estimate for the way a lot such a challenge would value.
Nevertheless, he stated the pumps would offset the chance of fossil gas provides being disrupted, noting that ice flows have boxed out ships carrying important gas to hundreds of thousands of residences within the metropolis. Solely ice-breaking ships provided by the Coast Guard allowed gas to achieve town.
Within the quick time period, town should stand able to react to any heating concern that arises in NYCHA developments whereas the brand new pumps are being put in, Mamdani instructed QNS – New York News’s sister publication.
– With reporting from Shane O’Brien
