10.52 Who is Zohran Mamdani?

This web page is information about Mamdani's actions after being elected mayor of New York City. There is another web page with older videos about Mamdani's actions and statements before he was elected mayor which you can see by clicking here. Those videos help us understand why he is doing what he is doing as mayor.

One big reason that Mamdani was elected was that he promised a rent freeze. The average ignorant New Yorker blames rising rents on landlords being greedy without realizing that the government is being greedy by raising taxes on landlords who have to raise their rents to pay their taxes. In addition inflation due to reckless government spending during the Biden presidency increases the costs for landlords who then have to pass those costs on to tenants. One reason for high rents is the high demand for an inadequate supply of housing but that housing shortage is created by government price controls that prevent builders from building more homes. If the government didn't interfere high demand for homes would lead to builders building more homes. Rent freezes in a market with a low supply of houses results in wealthy people who would have been able to afford a home in NYC, not able to get one because there aren't enough available. It results of a redistribution of homes in NYC from the wealthy to the middle class and poor. Rent freezes don't increase the supply of homes they just change who lives in those homes. In fact they make less money available to landlords to maintain homes and builder to build new homes which results in fewer available homes.

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Bigwig on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team railed against Jews, questioned gay rights in vile unearthed posts: ‘Horror show’

A bigwig on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team spewed hatred against Jews and Israel and questioned gay rights in a series of hateful social media posts from a decade ago. Hassaan Chaudhary, who identifies himself as newly appointed political director for Mamdani’s transition and inaugural committee on LinkedIn, used the word “Jew” as a slur, and even praised former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who infamously said Israel is “a cancer which will be eliminated soon.”

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Mamdani taps disgraced activist who said 'one day we can abolish police' to key public safety committee

Socialist New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed Tamika Mallory, an ex-Women’s March organizer who resigned over allegations of antisemitism, to his transition team.

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Mamdani offers job to Muslim migrant cop who resigned after scandal-ridden tenure as Hamtramck police chief.

An investigation found that Altaheri allegedly destroyed evidence by wiping his city phone, drove his city vehicle while intoxicated, misused his police lights to run red lights, and at one point even handed a loaded gun to a civilian volunteer, allegedly instructing the volunteer to point it at someone’s head….

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Mamdani Assembles Transition Team of Terrorist Defenders and Jew Haters The absolute worst of the worst.

Mamdani’s transition team stands out for the sheer number of members who hate Jews. That includes Hassaan Chaudhary, a fellow Indian Muslim who headed up Muslim outreach for Mamdani, who had praised Iranian dictator Ahmadinejad for his call to eliminate Israel, and used “Jew” as an insult. Also on the Mamdani transition team is ousted Women’s March leader Tamika Mallory, who had celebrated Farrakhan, and accused Jews of being behind slavery.

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Mamdani’s New Regime: A Who’s Who of Jew-Haters and Terror Sympathizers

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Zohran Mamdani to stop all homeless encampment sweeps as NYC mayor, ending key Adams initiative

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An NYU student was attacked... This is what Mamdani said.

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Zohran Mamdani taps ex-con rapper who served 7 years for armed robbery as criminal justice adviser on transition team: ‘Insane’

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has picked a controversial rapper who did seven years in state prison for armed robbery to advise him on the criminal justice system, The Post has learned.

Mysonne Linen, 49, a Bronx convict-turned-activist who was found guilty of two felony heists in the late 1990s, was appointed by the democratic socialist to sit on his mayoral transition’s “criminal legal system” committee — just one of many questionable picks.

“This is a testament to our decades of work advocating on behalf of black and brown communities and our expertise in gun violence prevention, legislative advocacy and criminal justice reform,” Linen boasted on Instagram last month after the position was announced. “We are building something different.”

Zohran Just Hired a CONVICTED FELON to Fix NYC Crime…

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Douglas Murray: Zohran Mamdani appointing radical transition team has NYC in for a rude awakening

Traditionally, experts in criminal justice, policing and safety are people who are opposed to criminals. Not people whose experience is of supporting criminals or actually being criminals. Take the appointment of Lumumba Bandele to serve on the soon-to-be mayor’s “Committee on Community Organizing.” As well as being a black nationalist, Bandele has spent his career supporting people who have killed cops in New York and New Jersey. That’s nice news for all the NYPD officers who put their lives on the line every day in this city...

The state’s 2019 rent-law changes made it impossible for landlords to raise rents when other costs go up — like utilities, insurance and labor — and prevents building owners from recouping the costs of unit rehabilitation after tenants move out.. Democrats won control of the Legislature in late 2018 and started swinging for the left-field fences: That’s when they rushed through all those disastrous “criminal justice reforms,” too. .. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s vision for the future of housing offers little hope for improvement: He vows to “freeze the rent” for all rent-regulated tenants, even as so many landlords operate with paper-thin margins at best. The mayor-elect loudly cheers the “decommodification of housing,” meaning that the housing market shouldn’t be a source of profit for anyone — though NYCHA, the nation’s largest public housing authority, shows exactly what a de-commodified system looks like: endlessly deferred maintenance that’s yielded a repairs backlog running $85 billion.

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has tapped a controversial lawyer who defended an al Qaeda terrorist and a radical anti-Israel campus leader at Columbia for a “high-ranking” position at City Hall, The Post has learned.

Her biggest claim to fame dates back to her days as California’s labor secretary — when she oversaw up to $40 billion in unemployment checks sent to fraudsters.

There are a number of very strange things that Mamdani is doing like tapping an ex con for advise on the criminal justice system. In the video "Who is Zohran Mamdani" a woman talks about his bizarre statements. He may want to make manhattan Islamic. Wanting to defund the police is bizarre. Could a Cloward Piven strategy be at work here.

Roughly 80 of the 400 people named to staff Mamdani’s 17 transition committees “have a documented history of making or sharing anti-Zionist or anti-Israel statements,” the report found. A handful were also found to have ties to the Nation of Islam or its antisemitic leader Louis Farrakhan, including Jacques Léandre, a member of the transition’s Committee on Legal Affairs, the ADL said.

The revealing report came less than a week after Mamdani’s director of appointments, Catherine Almonte Da Costa, was forced to resign when decade-old antisemitic and anti-police remarks she made on social media resurfaced — including rants about “money hungry Jews” and defunding NYPD “piggies.”

Pipko EXPOSES Mamdani’s Team: This Isn’t Anti-Israel — It’s Anti-AMERICA

Elon Musk called out NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s appointment of Lillian Bonsignore as the FDNY’s next commissioner, warning it could have deadly consequences because the former EMS chief lacks operational firefighting experience. “People will die because of this,” the Tesla and SpaceX founder predicted on X Friday night, responding to a post with a video clip highlighting that Bonsignore has never fought fires. “Proven experience matters when lives are at stake,” he added.

Mamdani’s unit is being leased off-market — a practice that has exploded since the city’s new Fairness in Apartment Rental Expenses (FARE) Act went into effect in June. The controversial broker-fee ban — which Mamdani himself lobbied for as a state Assemblyman — sent prices through the roof as the fee became baked into rents. Since the FARE Act, new listings on the Real Estate Board of New York’s Residential Listing Service collapsed 77% as an increasing number of brokers kept exclusive listings “off market” as a way to bypass the ban, an analysis by real estate firm UrbanDigs found. Together with the 2019 rent reforms that resulted in a number of landlords finding it more financially viable to leave rent-stabilized units vacant rather than rent them, it has put supply at an all-time low, and rents at an all-time high.

Mamdani picked Cea Weaver to run his Office to Protect Tenants: She’s a proud radical who has called for the city to force private landlords out of business so it can seize their buildings; that’s partly why she praises his rent-freeze plans as likely to “deepen the crises” in the housing marketplace.

She’s spent years advocating unabashed Marxism: “Elect more Communists,” ran a tweet from December 2017; “Seize private property,” another in June 2018. Just before the New Year, Mamdani chose Kamar Samuels as schools chancellor. On top of wanting to end Gifted & Talented programs, Samuels is so obsessed with racial re-engineering of the school system that he’s won praise from far-left “1619 Project” chief Nikole Hannah-Jones.

If actions speak louder than words, then Mayor Zohran Mamdani gave New Yorkers an earful by smirkingly revoking nine of his predecessor’s executive orders, a third of them touching on antisemitism. That’s a funny way to describe a condemnation of Jew-hatred: One order tossed in the dustbin was a “working definition” of antisemitism that condemns “hatred toward Jews” directed against Jews, non-Jews and “Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.” Lefties don’t like this definition — formulated by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance — because they say it can be interpreted as including anti-Zionist agitation as antisemitic, though it doesn’t even say Israel. Most ominously, Mamdani revoked an order instructing the NYPD to “evaluate” conditions for protests outside houses of worship. Mayor Eric Adams issued this order following an ugly demonstration outside a Manhattan synagogue in November, when screaming protesters were permitted to directly confront worshippers, contrary to established police practice.

Kathy wants Mamdani supporters many of whom are Muslim to vote for her in the next election so in January 2026 during Muslim heritage month she ordered New York landmarks lit with Islamic green lights. Shockingly she ordered the new World Trade Center lit green when it was Muslims who destroyed the old World Trade Center towers including the thousands of New Yorkers who worked in those towers.

Ah yes, Muslim Heritage month. Let's review Muslim heritage. There's a lot of heritage (incomplete list).....
Washington, D.C., National Guard shooting
Boulder fire attack
New Orleans NYE truck attack
Times Square stabbing of NYPD officers
Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting
New York City truck attack
Bishop International Airport attack
Ohio State University attack
St. Cloud, Minnesota mall stabbing
2016 New York and New Jersey bombings (2014)
Pulse Orlando nightclub shooting
San Bernardino attack
Chattanooga shootings
Curtis Culwell Center attack - Free Speech Conference
Boston beheading plot
New Jersey, Seattle, Washington, and West Orange killing spree by Ali Muhammad Brown
Queens hatchet attack
Beheading by Alton Nolen
Wichita bombing attempt
Boston Marathon bombing
Car bomb plot in Florida
Lone Wolf New York City, Bayonne, NJ pipe bombs plot
2011 Manhattan terrorism plot
Saudi Arabian student bomb plots
Times Square car bombing attempt
Washington Metro bomb plot
Times Square car bombing attempt
Washington Metro bomb plot
Brooklyn Bridge shooting
Bojinka plot
Brooklyn bombing plot
millennium attack plots
September 11 attacks
shoe bomb attempt
Los Angeles Airport shooting
José Padilla/Abdullah al-Muhajir's attack plot
Buffalo Six
financial buildings plot
Los Angeles bomb plot
Hudson River bomb plot
Sears Tower plot
Seattle Jewish Federation shooting
Toledo terror plot
transatlantic aircraft plot
UNC SUV attack
Fort Dix attack plot
John F. Kennedy International Airport attack plot
Failed underwear bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253
Little Rock recruiting office shooting
Bronx terrorism plot
Dallas car bomb plot by Hosam Maher Husein Smadi[39]
New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot
Fort Hood shooting
Colleen LaRose arrested (not made public until March 2010)
Transatlantic aircraft bomb plot
King Salmon, Alaska local meteorologist and wife assassination plots
Alleged Washington Metro bomb plot
CIA headquarters shooting
World Trade Center bombing

How Zohran Mamdani Managed To CRIPPLE New York City In Just ONE DAY! | Thomas Sowell

Zohran Mamdani’s new housing tsar called for the white middle class to be “impoverished” in a series of resurfaced posts on social media. Cea Weaver, who was appointed by the New York mayor as director of the office to protect tenants, previously said home ownership was a “weapon of white supremacy” in the posts on X.

Mamdani's NYC Nightmare: $14 BILLION Just Fled to Florida - And It's Getting WORSE!

25,000 Homeless SEIZE NYC’s Subway… as “Communist Mayor” HANDS CITY to SQUATTERS

This is not about Mamdani directly but it shows what's wrong with his rent freeze policies. 10% Rent stabilized units lose money for their landlords.

Mamdani also stood by tenant advocate Weaver after her social media comments mired his administration in controversy within days of kicking off in January — with her past tweets including stances such as, “The Police Are Just People The State Sanctions To Murder W[ith] Immunity.” Another of her tweets read, “Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy.” She also called on people to “elect more communists” to carry out her radical agenda.

The encampment is situated on Jamaica Avenue near 98th Street in Woodhaven below a rusted steel trestle once used by the Long Island Rail Road...

“The homeless turned it into their own apartment, and the police can’t do anything because Mamdani is okay with homeless encampments,” said Carmela Isabella, who grew up in Woodhaven and lives a few blocks away. “A lot of kids have to walk by there every day on their way home from school. It is terrible.”... “This has become an eyesore,” said Frank Castelli, chairman of Woodhaven Business Improvement District. “If you are going to go shopping on Jamaica Avenue, who’s going to want to pass by that? This is about quality of life.” ..Mamdani’s soft solutions for dealing with homelessness are having repercussions in other parts of the Big Apple with residents reporting expanding encampments — and new one’s popping up.

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Last weekend saw at least 10 New Yorkers die in the cold, and temps remain glacial now. Yet the mayor’s sticking by his order to cops and other city workers to leave encampments alone last weekend and not force the homeless to come in out of the deadly cold. The idea is that the city should respect the autonomy of these (highly dysfunctional) individuals — which sure sounds like an obsessive care for “rugged individualism” to us.

Dozens of families are illegally living in dilapidated trailers in the shadow of CitiField — draining off water from fire hydrants and swiping electricity while running black-market auto-repair shops. The unsightly gypsy-like encampment underneath the Whitestone Expressway, populated largely by Spanish-speaking migrants, has become a nightmare for residents and merchants along a stretch of Queens in the shadow of the New York Mets home field — and yet the city has done nothing, locals told The Post... “The whole area is bad,” said a man who claimed he lived in an RV in Marina Park for eight months. “Real dangerous. Especially at night, real dangerous. Who the f–k is calling the cops? “They settle things with machetes around here,” he said.

Faiza Ali previously worked as the community affairs director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which blamed Israel for Oct. 7 and has a long history of anti-Israel statements.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani attended Friday prayers at the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Queens, NY, on the first Friday of Ramadan, February 20, 2026. Iman Dakmak-Rakka, principal of the Al-Iman School, affiliated with the Al-Khoei Center, and a representative of the Al-Khoei Foundation, thanked Mamdani for his work on behalf of “all of humanity and all the residents of New York.” During the following prayer service, the imam prayed that Allah make them among those who await the Mahdi and are martyred before him, adding that through the hands of the Mahdi “comes the relief for the believers and the killing of the infidels by your sword.”

Many Black, middle-class NYC property owners say they’d be among the biggest victims of the Democratic Socialists of America’s proposed tax hikes. Some told The Post the DSA’s Marxist measures — which include higher taxes for individuals making over $300,000, and taxing inheritances over $250,000 — would hurt New Yorkers like themselves who spent decades building up retirement accounts, paying off homes, and planning their estates to benefit their loved ones “The reason you invest is to acquire wealth with the hopes of putting it towards your legacy, for your family — and this will greatly affect my family,” said mother-of-three Lorraine Smith-Singleton, 77, of Jamaica, Queens.

Muslims, shouting "Allahu Akbar" threw a bomb at a rally that luckily didn't go off. Mamdani instead of saying they were Muslims called the leader of the rally, Jake Lang, a white supremacist. Lang's protest was called, called “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City, Stop New York City Public Muslim Prayer."

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has officially broken his fast for the Islamic holiday Ramadan, and it is very telling who he chose to break it with. The Islamunist mayor catered a Ramadan dinner on Monday for Muslim prisoners at Rikers Island, where they send the worst of the worst offenders. He then vowed to get them released or at least transferred and to shut down the iconic prison...

Mamdani called the dinner at the notorious jail “one of the most meaningful evenings” he’s had as mayor. It was one of the highlights… another was having dinner with Hamas supporter, Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia anti-Israel activist who has previously been marked for deportation. He also celebrated the Muslim religious holiday of Iftar by having his staff and invitees, including one flashing the ISIS signal, sit on the floor of City Hall. .

Mystery novelist Daniel Friedman, who according to his bio on Macmillan Publishers’ website, lives in New York City, noted, “You have to be an absolute monster to be sent to Rikers Island these days.” “Offenders on Rikers all have long histories of doing things so horrible that even the woke, pro-crime judges and prosecutors in NYC don’t want to be responsible for what they’ll do if they let them go,” Friedman added. Moshe Hill, a long-time Long Island resident and candidate for the Nassau County legislature, agreed with Friedman. “Criminals in prison are just ‘New Yorkers in custody,’ according to Mamdani. Why are they in custody? You don’t go to Rikers Island for nothing!” Hill quipped. “Mayor likes to hang out with the people who victimize us. F—ing ridiculous,” Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt posted on X. Meanwhile, Emmy-Award winning producer and columnist Daniella Greenbaum Davis made her own post, asking the New York City mayor if he had also visited the victims of the inmates he was meeting with. “Visiting people in jail is admirable but just wondering if you’ve also visited their victims / the families of their victims?” she questioned.

Because he wants to shield them from ICE, motorized bikers can now speed as fast as they want yet face only a civil ticket... It isn’t breaking news that traffic lights and human life mean nothing to e-bikers. I watch them zoom up First Avenue, and sometimes down the one-way uptown avenue, from the safe perch of my 16th-floor windows.

How does a gap in wealth justify police cuts that will result in more murdered blacks Mr. Mamdani?

Squatters “SEIZE HALF” of Brooklyn… as Mamdani EVICTS NYC’s Working Class