NYC MAYOR’S RACE: Mamdani shifts campaign focus to city’s night shift workers at Jackson Heights’ Diversity Plaza

At Jackson Heights ‘ Diversity Plaza late Thursday night, Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani shifted his tactics in reaching out to the city’s working-class voters, this time focusing on the night shift workers who keep the “City That Never Sleeps” moving.

Mamdani, the frontrunner in the ongoing mayoral election despite some narrowing polls in recent days, brought his campaign to many of the workers who work the night shift, including healthcare workers and taxi drivers at LaGuardia Airport. The Queens Assembly Member spoke of how it is “nearly impossible” for such workers to participate in the political life of New York City.

Standing alongside healthcare workers and members of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) at Diversity Plaza at midnight, Mamdani pledged that h