In the February/March 2026 issue of Reason, we explore Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's policy goals and what they mean for New York City. Click here to read the other entries.
"Personnel is policy," as the Reagan-era slogan had it, so Zohran Mamdani's 400-person transition team tells us a lot about how he'll run a city with an already-bloated $115 billion budget and 300,000 municipal workers. He's cleaning house, demanding 179 Mayor Eric Adams staffers resign before he takes control of New York City—far more and far faster than the norm.
