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Uh-oh: Mayor Zohran Mamdani appears to assume the job is more about content-creation than making city authorities work for on a regular basis New Yorkers.
The millennial mayor’s mishandling of Winter Storm Fern’s aftermath continues — first 16 deaths in the cold, then trash mountains stinking up entire neighborhoods and now main road- and foot-traffic troubles as snow piles, turned to ice, snarl visitors and go away seniors unable to securely go away the home.
Meanwhile, Mamdani sticks to his countless cycle of press conferences to spotlight numerous “small ball” initiatives.
Perfect for his future TikToks, not so great for New Yorkers’ every day life now.
Another unhealthy vainness transfer: Finding the good outfit — a customized Carhartt jacket — to put on on-camera forward of the storm.
Better if he’d worn a Sanitation Department parka and put his time and power into post-disaster planning, not fashion.
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Skip wowing the (fawning) press corps together with your hands-on method to rewriting City Hall press releases, too.
It was effective to boast and sloganeer at your Inauguration, sir, however then you definitely need to reside up to guarantees like “No problem too big. No task too small.”
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Shoveling snow your self was a cute enough stunt (even should you did it incorrect!), however getting the massive stuff is significant.
Quit cultivating “influencers” and begin exhibiting some governing chops.
And should you should hold forth, be able to reply fundamental questions: Asked how his proposed Department of Community Safety would’ve dealt with the schizophrenic knife-wielding Queens man who lunged at cops earlier than being shot, Mamdani descended into word-salad then retreated into urging in opposition to his prosecution, as if anybody needs the mentally sick despatched to jail.
Thirty-five days into his tenure, it’s time for the mayor to put infantile issues away and focus on service supply, not daydreams of socialist transformation.
Leave the cosplay and content-creation to the Gen Zers and Gen Alphas.
Grow up and do the job the voters elected you to do.
