As the son of filmmaker Mira Nair , New York’s newest mayor Zohran Mamdani knows the difference between Hollywood and reality. He knows that he’ll have a hard time living up to the expectations that have built up in the minds of New Yorkers after seeing their city’s politics depicted again and again. But does he know that the most daunting example is the one set by a guy named Lenny?

Mayor Lenny is the only name we have for the politician David Margulies plays in Ghostbusters and its first sequel, Ghostbusters II . Mayor Lenny has only a couple of scenes, and he’s never the guy we see dealing with Gozer or Vigo the Carpathian. Yet, in those few scenes, Mayor Lenny establishes himself as the greatest New York Mayor in movie history, and a fine example for any of his real-world co

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