Zohran Mamdani: “You each hold a special power, the power to determine what America means.”

We would be making these stations cool again, and we’d be making what is old new again.

He did so because he believed in a simple definition of the task of government to make people's lives better.

This pied-à-terre tax is specifically designed for the richest of the rich, those who store their wealth in New York City real estate but don't actually live here," Mamdani claimed in the April 2026 video.

What we can do is continue with our approach citywide of looking for ways to cut costs and cut the regulations that so many bodegueros, as well as grocery store owners, have to jump through in order to do their work.