Zohran Mamdani began his first morning as mayor-elect at the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, keeping the same focus on affordability that defined his campaign as he unveiled a transition team filled with heavyweight national figures and familiar city faces.

“The poetry of campaigning may have come to a close last night at nine, but the beautiful prose of governing has only just begun,” Mamdani said Wednesday, adding that “the hard work of improving New Yorkers lives starts now.”

That begins with assembling “a City Hall capable of delivering on the promises of this campaign.”

Mamdani named an initial slate of transition chairs that includes former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, former First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, United Way of New York City CEO Grace Bo

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