Zohran Mamdani

We have stress tested to learn virtually and are working with vendors to ensure that our systems have the capacity that they need.

And I know that this may disappoint some students.

So if you do see me, feel free to throw a snowball at me.

I think the reality is, is that for centuries, we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good.

And we are going to trend in transitioning to treating it as a

A collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently.

And it will mean that families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have.

I was trying to be the host for a second.

You know, I think I am aided by the fact that I have not given much weight to polls and favorability in the past, which is part of the reason why I'm sitting in front of you.

So I think it comes back to the fact that we ran a race on an affordability agenda.

It spoke to New Yorkers living in the most expensive city in the United States.

we have to now deliver on that agenda.

I think kind of the premise of your point is that this is the moment of hope, and then the question of what comes next.

And even beyond the transition as a high watermark, oftentimes campaigns, there's already a temptation of nostalgia for what the campaign was.

we have to ensure the campaign is not the story we look back on.

It's the path to the story that we've yet to start.

And I think that comes back to delivery.

That comes back to freezing the rent, making buses fast and free, delivering universal childcare.

You have to transform people's lives in a way that they can actually touch and feel and hold onto

so that they're not just grasping at the memories of what the struggle was like.