Politics NY News Headlines Archive for January 1, 2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani pictured signing three of his first five executive orders aimed at tackling the city’s housing crisis during a press conference at an apartment building in Brooklyn

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MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: New mayor gets started by revoking Adams-era orders, relaunches tenant rights office

By Adam Daly

Mayor Zohran Mamdani addresses New York City in his inauguration address.

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Zohran Mamdani inauguration: Read the new Mayor’s address

By amNewYork

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and wife Rama Duwaji at his inauguration

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Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration: New mayor vows not to soften democratic socialist agenda for governing NYC

By Adam Daly

Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes the oath of office

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MAYOR MAMDANI: Queens democratic socialist takes the oath of office as NYC’s 112th mayor

By Robert Pozarycki

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One Bronx artist wants employees—not CEOs, to have a hall of fame

Taylor Brown, the executive director of the Mayor's Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs.

Mamdani administration reaffirms that trans athletes ‘can play the sports they love’ in NYC

A 13-year-old boy from College Point was killed and another 13-year-old was critically injured when the scooter he was operating in East Flushing was nearly doored by an elderly man, throwing the passenger into the path of a truck on Monday, June 29.

College Point teen, 13, killed while riding on scooter in Flushing: NYPD

NY: Sporting Club Gjøa – France vs Norway

Sporting Club Gjøa turns Brooklyn clubhouse into Norway’s World Cup home away from home