Zoran Mamdani

Well, I think, especially speaking to you today, when we've accomplished such a significant part of what was one of the cornerstones of our campaign, there's a temptation to think that governance is only about the issues that are as large as our city, when in fact, governance is also about showing that there's no issue too small.

And a few days ago, I was sitting around

our conference table with our cabinet, and we were talking about the different things that we could be doing in our first 100 days.

And I brought up an example of something that has afflicted a lot of New Yorkers, especially cyclists, when they're biking over the Williamsburg Bridge and they come into Manhattan, there tends to be this drop

that they experience.

And I've experienced it myself as a cyclist every now and then.

And I asked, you know, how can we fix this?

What can we do?

And the answer was, well, we could just do that tomorrow.

So why don't we?

And I think that's what we're showing is, in fact, if you care about working class New Yorkers, if you care about their needs, whether big or small, you can start to deliver on them.

And that's been something that's been so exciting about governing is that we are now in a position to deliver for New Yorkers, not just to deliberate around what we would do if we had that power.

Yeah, I mean, it's the question that most people will ask you is, are my struggles actually a part of your politics?

Are my day-to-day realities reflected in what you are working on?

And too often, politics doesn't feel like a reflection.

It feels as if it is an inverse of what people are living through.

And what we found is that the best way to deliver for New Yorkers is to start by listening to them.

And after the housing crisis, New Yorkers will tell you it's the child care crisis.

It's a crisis where in a city it's cheaper to send your kid to college at the City University of New York than it is to find child care for that same child.

And today we are showing that