Last year, when President Donald Trump canceled congestion pricing in New York City, the White House posted a mock-up TIME cover of him with a crown with the label “Long Live the King.”
It turns out that there was a new king of New York who was a product of Queens. But it was not the president. Rather, Astoria’s Zohran Mamdani would be the new monarch. A year and a half ago, the backbencher legislator and democratic socialist caused a political earthquake when he beat Andrew Cuomo to become the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City.
