Mayor Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as New York Metropolis’s new mayor at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2026. State Legal professional Basic Letitia James (l.) administered the oath to Mamdani as his spouse, Rama Duwaji (r.) held a Qur’an upon which the brand new mayor positioned his left hand in affirming his oath to the town.
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Zohran Mamdani is formally the mayor of New York Metropolis.
The 34-year-old Queens democratic socialist and former Meeting member, elected in November on a marketing campaign promising dramatic financial packages to make New York extra inexpensive, ascended to the very best workplace in New York Metropolis at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. He was sworn in throughout an intimate ceremony on the outdated Metropolis Corridor subway station about three miles south of the revelry in Occasions Sq., the place thousands and thousands watched the New 12 months’s ball drop.
State Legal professional Basic Letitia James administered the oath of workplace to Mamdani, who took it along with his left hand on a historic Qur’an held by his spouse, Rama Duwaji, and borrowed from the collections of the Schomburg Heart for Analysis in Black Tradition. Mamdani is the primary Muslim and the primary particular person of South Asian descent to function New York Metropolis’s mayor.
After taking the oath of workplace, Mamdani’s first act as the town’s chief government was to pay the $9 charge to the Metropolis Clerk for submitting a signed copy of his oath of workplace — a ceremony of passage for each new mayor of the Large Apple.
The historic Qur’an borrowed from Harlem’s Schomburg Heart that Mayor Zohran Mamdani used to take the oath of workplace on Thursday in changing into New York Metropolis’s new mayor.Jonathan Blanc/The New York Public Library.
Mamdani succeeds former Mayor Eric Adams, whose tenure at Metropolis Corridor lasted 4 years. Adams’ closing act as mayor got here at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2025, when he pushed a button that despatched the Occasions Sq. New 12 months’s ball on its minute-long downward journey to 2026.
As for the brand new mayor, Mamdani will take the oath of workplace once more on the steps of Metropolis Corridor this afternoon at 1 p.m. throughout a proper inauguration ceremony and block occasion, the place hundreds are anticipated to rejoice. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will administer the oath of workplace to Mayor Mamdani on the ceremony.
Two different citywide elected officers, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and new Metropolis Comptroller Mark Levine, will even be inaugurated on the Thursday afternoon affair.
Watch the midnight swearing-in ceremony beneath:
