Bridget Bergen

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.

But there also is going to be this huge block party with tens of thousands more people that's going to span several blocks along Broadway.

where people will be able to watch a live feed of the ceremony and really be part of the celebration.

It's going to be on a part of the street known as the Canyon of Heroes, where you might see a ticker tape parade, like when the New York Liberty became WNBA champions in 2024.

Space is still limited, though, so people needed to RSVP to get into that area.

And really, no matter where you're watching, if you're going to be outside,

It's going to be time to bundle up.

The actual temperature will be about 26 degrees at the time of the ceremony.

But with the wind, it's going to feel like about 12.

Thank you.

Democratic nominee Zoran Mamdani's youth and short tenure in government have been persistent lines of attack from his rivals.

Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor who's running as an independent after losing to Mamdani in the primary, continues to make it an issue.

Mamdani says Cuomo's experience, including resigning as governor in 2021 following a series of scandals, is not what the city needs.

Republican Curtis Lewa says he's just glad he's not a career politician like his opponents.

For NPR News, I'm Bridget Bergen in New York.

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