Sean Rameswaram

Bridget Bergen, senior politics reporter at WNYC.

On Monday night, you hung out with the mayor of New York City, Zoran Mamdani, at a live event at the Green Space.

How's he feeling about his first 100 days in office?

Hello, everyone.

It's such a pleasure to be here.

This is Pothole Politics.

And they're saying that if you want me to believe in the promise of universal child care, you have to show that you can deal with the smallest kind of issues that have often been overlooked.

The three things that candidate Mamdani couldn't stop talking about were universal child care, free and fast buses and freezing the rent.

We asked Bridget how he's doing on those three pledges so far.

Not that anyone would have expected him to deliver on all three already, right?

Right?

I'm thrilled to announce we've secured a pied-à-terre tax, the first in New York's history.

This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million, whose owners do not live full-time in the city.

This tax will raise at least $500 million directly for the city.

How does the city feel about him at this point?

What are his approval ratings?

Wow.

That might be surprising to people.

I was just this morning on YouTube looking at one of his rap videos as, you know, young Cardamon, Mr. Cardamon.

And one of the comments was, this is my mayor.