Zohran Mamdani has announced a team including former city and federal officials — all women — to steer his transition to New York City Hall. The new mayor-elect said Wednesday that "the hard work of improving New Yorker's lives starts now.

The 34-year-old democratic socialist won Tuesday over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Mamdani now faces the task of following through on his ambitious affordability agenda while navigating the bureaucratic challenges of City Hall and a hostile Trump administration.

Mamdani vowed to hold ICE agents accountable and hold them to the same standard of the law. "If you violate the law, you must be held accountable," he said.

He also spoke out against President Donald Trump, saying he is "making it harder to afford those same groceries whose price he was decrying not that long ago. "

More than 2 million New Yorkers cast ballots in the contest, the largest turnout in a mayoral race in more than 50 years, according to the city’s Board of Elections. With roughly 90% of the votes counted, Mamdani held an approximately 9 percentage point lead over Cuomo.