What is a New York City where working class people no longer can afford to live? What kind of identity, what type of soul, would that place have?

Would it still glow with the restless energy with which we’ve always been defined by? Or would it recede in its absence?

By relentlessly challenging the status quo of deepening unaffordability, Zohran Mamdani is calling this into question.

He is asking if anything short of bold sweeping action will save the essence of this place. He has run on an agenda that puts working people first — a rent freeze for more than two million tenants, universal child care for all kids 6 weeks to 5-year-olds, faster and free buses. It’s an agenda that won him a historic Democratic primary victory this past June , as an unprecedented coalition of New Yorkers

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