Happy new year! In the wee hours of 2026, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as the new mayor of New York City in a private ceremony in the abandoned beaux-arts subway station under city hall. Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as mayor of New York City at the old city hall station. mir Hamja/ReutersThe democratic socialist, 34, was sworn into office by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, surrounded by wife, Rama Duwaji, members of his immediate family, including Mira Nair, his mother and a film-maker, and his father, Mahmood Mamdani, a professor of African studies at Columbia University. And Mamdani, who becomes the city’s first ever Muslim mayor, was sworn in with a Qur’an.
