Bridget Bergen

I think it's almost inevitable that ordinary people are going to end up subsidizing the wealthiest industry in the world.

Yeah, you're right.

It's a historic day.

But at 34 years old, Mamdani is the youngest mayor of New York City, really in the modern era.

He's the first Muslim mayor.

He's an immigrant New Yorker.

His parents are both from India, but he spent the early part of his childhood in Uganda before his family moved to New York City.

And really politically, Mamdani represents a shift from his predecessor, Eric Adams, who was a far more conservative Democrat.

So Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA.

He calls the group his political home.

It's a membership organization with chapters across the country.

It's not a political party.

It helped inform his campaign platform, things like making buses fast and free and providing universal child care.

The group also helped him recruit thousands of volunteers for his winning campaign.

Among those he defeated was outgoing Mayor Adams, who is leaving office under a bit of a cloud.

He faced federal corruption charges that were dismissed at the direction of President Trump's Justice Department earlier this year.

Mamdani has included some of the most prominent national figures with ties to the DSA in today's ceremony.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will deliver opening remarks.

And then Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will conduct the public swearing in.

Well, there will be several thousand people at a ticketed event outside City Hall, which for anyone who's visited New York sits just on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge.