Uh-oh: Mayor Zohran Mamdani seems to think the job is more about content-creation than making city government work for everyday 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 whole neighborhoods and now major road- and foot-traffic troubles as snow piles, turned to ice, snarl traffic and leave seniors unable to safely leave the house.
Meanwhile, Mamdani sticks to his endless cycle of press conferences to highlight various “small ball” initiatives.
Perfect for his future TikToks, not so great for New Yorkers’ daily life now.
Another bad vanity move: Finding the perfect outfit — a custom Carhartt jacket — to wear on-camera ahead of the storm.
Better if he’d worn a Sanitation Department parka and put his time and energy into post-disaster planning, not fashion.
Skip wowing the (fawning) press corps with your hands-on approach to rewriting City Hall press releases, too.
It was fine to boast and sloganeer at your Inauguration, sir, but then you need to live up to promises like “No problem too big. No task too small.”
Shoveling snow yourself was a cute enough stunt (even if you did it wrong!), but getting the big stuff is vital.
Quit cultivating “influencers” and start showing some governing chops.
And if you must pontificate, be ready to answer basic questions: Asked how his proposed Department of Community Safety would’ve handled the schizophrenic knife-wielding Queens man who lunged at cops before being shot, Mamdani descended into word-salad then retreated into urging against his prosecution, as if anyone wants the mentally ill sent to prison.
Thirty-five days into his tenure, it’s time for the mayor to put childish things away and concentrate on service delivery, not daydreams of socialist transformation.
Leave the cosplay and content-creation to the Gen Zers and Gen Alphas.
