New York City’s political power is officially passing off to the millennial generation. Zohran Mamdani, 34, will be the city’s youngest mayor in over a century, unlocking a new era of leadership that’s likely to look very different from his boomer predecessors.
Mamdani’s win follows 65-year-old Eric Adams. Before that, former mayors behind Adams, such as de Blasio, Bloomberg, Giuliani, were all born before 1965. In fact, nobody under 40 has led the city since John Purroy Mitchel, who was nicknamed “the boy mayor”.
