At his inauguration as New York City mayor on Thursday, Zohran Mamdani declared that he will “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” But the weather revealed the opposite.
As Mamdani stood on the steps of City Hall, the climate was almost Siberian, and a brutal wind swept through the streets. Yet that couldn’t deter thousands of spectators. With raucous enthusiasm, they watched as Mamdani was sworn in by Bernie Sanders. Behind him, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a disconsolate Eric Adams, and a host of left-wing artists looked on. Many more Mamdani devotees stood outside the venue, watching the spectacle unfold on towering screens from a closed-off section of Broadway, where they had traveled from far and wide to attend New York’s “first ever inauguration block party.”
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