Dhoom Machale: How Zohran Mamdani turned New York into the Big Blue Apple

In How I Met Your Mother, a sitcom based in New York (what sitcom isn’t), the show’s protagonist Ted Mosby takes great umbrage when his paramour Stella asks him to move to New Jersey. For those not familiar with the urban logistics, moving from New York to New Jersey is like moving from South Mumbai to Navi Mumbai or South Delhi to Noida. The argument turns serious when Stella cites Frank Sinatra, who, while he was from Hoboken, New Jersey, sang about New York. As Ted mockingly asks, “What city is he singing about? It’s not Secaucus, Secaucus.” Ted’s paranoia about moving aside, Sinatra sang another song that would have fit Zohran Mamdani ’s campaign perfectly — the one where a little-known Indian-origin Muslim socialist with a friendly face conquered the city of New York: and he d