ZoA DJ’s job is to curate vibes. And at Zohran Mamdani ’s election night party at the Brooklyn Paramount, his DJ knew the exact vibe he wanted to curate when local news channel NY1 announced that the Associated Press called the mayoral race for the 34-year-old democratic socialist at 9:37 P.M. After the screaming and the first pumping and the cheersing just began to ebb, he put on a song that would keep everything going: Fat Joe and Remy Ma’s 2004 banger “Lean Back.” In the crowd, which had reached moshpit-like levels at the front of the stage, a man wearing a Zohran beanie waved a New York City flag.

Toward the back of the room, And Just Like That actor and former gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon smiled. “We’re going to wake up happy in Zohran’s New York,” she says.

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