100 days of Mayor Mamdani
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What are the major initiatives announced by Mayor Mamdani in his first 100 days?
Here's a probably incomplete list of things that Zoran Mamdani either did or announced just last week. He said he was gonna open the first in a series of city-owned grocery stores. One of those stores will be at La Marqueta in El Barrio. On tax day, in a video that, according to his top press person, got 40 million views in 20 hours, he said he's gonna tax the rich. When I ran for mayor, I said I was gonna tax the rich. He redoubled the city's efforts to get rid of the rats. Everyone that knows me, they know one thing, I hate rats. And correlation or causation, but the Trump administration said they'd release $60 million in funding for New York City's subways. He's a communist. On the occasion of the completion of his first hundred days in office, we at Today Explained are going to take a look at Mayor Mamdani and talk about what he's accomplished because it seems like a lot.
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I'd like to welcome the 112th mayor of New York City, Mayor Zoran Mamdani.
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?
I think he's feeling pretty good, Sean.
Hello, everyone. It's such a pleasure to be here.
His administration points to a lot of the work that they've been doing that, you know, is government delivering for people. And it's the type of stuff that I think New Yorkers expect from their government. But I think the government doesn't always remind them that they're actually doing it. And they've actually taken some time to brand the work that they're doing.
This is Pothole Politics.
And it's basically an emphasis on taking care of things like potholes and picking up the trash and making sure the streets are clean as a sort of testament to New Yorkers that they're both focusing on the small things, the things that matter in their lives, and that's why they should trust them to do bigger things.
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.
That is their argument. And they point to some of those smaller things that they've done as, you know, emblematic of that.
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 think there are people who would expect them in 100 days, but, you know, so far, he has made some interesting progress. On day eight, he stood with Governor Kathy Hochul, where they announced this infusion of state funds to pay for the expansion of the city's early childhood programs. And we have made this choice so that no longer do New Yorkers have to make the choice between this city and their family. Now, in parts of the city where there was only limited 3k programs so that would be early childhood education for three-year-olds now that's supposed to be available citywide so that you know if you have a three-year-old who wants to enroll in that program they're not going to suddenly tell you sure there's a seat for you it's just you know in this other borough and ultimately his parents
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