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Mayor Mamdani says his wife, Rama Duwaji, was not aware of anti-Israel posts (like calling some Israeli citizens “parasites”) from an author she illustrated an essay for. Mamdani calls that rhetoric “reprehensible” and says his wife booked the gig thru a 3rd party
Josie Stratman12,735,129 views • 2 months ago

Mayor Mamdani is celebrating off-duty FDNY Travis Langan — who punched a hole (!) in a BK woman’s car roof to save her from dangerous floodwaters in Wednesday’s rainstorm. “I saw her face pressed up against the sunroof, and I just started punching, punching my way through.”
Josie Stratman310,695 views • 12 days ago

Andrew Cuomo casts his vote, alongside two of his daughters (neither of them are eligible to vote in NYC)
Josie Stratman3,121,732 views • 7 months ago

Carmen Pinto: “I was about to drown in a trapped vehicle & w/o thinking of his own well-being, he punched a hole in my roof and rescued me & today I get to see the Knicks [win], I get to go back to my school community in Bed-Stuy District 16… & I got to meet my favorite mayor”
Josie Stratman127,031 views • 12 days ago

Amid the Times Square sideshows, Eric Adams announces his “NYC Token,” a crypto coin he says will fight antisemitism. “I’m not taking a salary at this time,” he said of the yet to be launched coin. “Down the line, we will make the determination of doing so”
Josie Stratman1,565,923 views • 4 months ago

Mayor Mamdani is at the red panda exhibit at the Prospect Park Zoo to announce a settlement against food delivery app HungryPanda. “They are very hungry pandas, unlike the HungryPanda app, they, however, are not interested in bamboozling hard working New Yorkers,” Mamdani says
Josie Stratman387,067 views • 1 month ago

Mamdani spokesperson Joe Calvello says the mayor pitched Trump on a plan to 12k housing units to NYC. Calvello did not provide any details. “The president was very enthusiastic about this idea,” he said, adding it would be the “biggest fed investment” for housing in decades
Josie Stratman662,628 views • 3 months ago

Mayor Adams casts his vote at PS 81 in the Democratic primary. He said he’d vote for “Eric Adams 1-5,” writing himself in instead of casting his ballot for one of the candidates (he’s opted out of the primary). I asked if he’d vote for Chi Ossé, and he shot a v skeptical look
Josie Stratman1,262,538 views • 11 months ago

Mayor Adams pulls a cigar out of his jacket and shows union head Gary LaBarbera, who grabs his face. He says he “had a lot of fun, smoked a few cigars and some single malt,” in Tbilisi. “Someone asked me if I’m going to miss being mayor and I said, ‘I’m good.’”
Josie Stratman591,257 views • 5 months ago

Mayor Mamdani announces a legal filing against delivery app Motoclik for “having stolen tips and money from their workers and failing to comply with minimum wage pay loss.” “Companies such as this clearly believe that this is still the politics of the past,” Mamdani says.
Josie Stratman445,756 views • 4 months ago

Mamdani, asked ab the less critical tone he’s taken about Trump post-election, says he’s followed thru on his campaign promise to “work with anyone” as long as it benefits NYC “The prez & I have many disagreements, which we share publicly, and we share privately,” Mamdani says.
Josie Stratman297,827 views • 3 months ago

Mayor Mamdani responds to Rosenberg’s Islamophobic post. He says this kind of language is bigoted & “painfully familiar” “There's no amount of racism that will change the way in which I lead, or the commitment that I hold to each and every New Yorker in the city,” Mamdani says
Josie Stratman268,935 views • 3 months ago

Zohran Mamdani tears up while talking about Islamophobic attacks during his mayoral campaign.
Josie Stratman494,501 views • 7 months ago