A win by Zohran Mamdani on November 4 would make the 33-year-old New York’s youngest mayor in a century. But even in a contest against men twice his age, Mamdani has begun to sound like the adult in the room on issues of public safety, offering detailed, thoughtful policy proposals while his opponents — Mayor Eric Adams, former governor Andrew Cuomo, and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa — continue to campaign on the traditional idea that channeling more money, manpower and technology to the NYPD is the only way to keep the city safe.

By contrast, Mamdani backs a slate of criminal-justice reforms and innovations from around the country that can be replicated or expanded in New York to deal with issues like gang violence and disorder in the subways involving homeless people. We talk

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