Shortly after midnight local time, in a historic former subway station beneath City Hall, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York, becoming the first Muslim, South Asian, and African-born person to lead the city.
“This is truly the honor and the privilege of a lifetime,” Mamdani said at the ceremony, where he was sworn in using his grandfather’s Quran and a historic Quran from the New York Public Library.
