The morning after Zohran Mamdani secured more than 1 million votes in the New York City general election, he stood at a podium in front of the iconic Unisphere sculpture in Flushing Meadows Corona Park with a sign that said, “A New Era.”

“The poetry of campaigning may have come to a close last night at 9 p.m., but the beautiful prose of governing has only just begun,” he said, loosely quoting former Gov. Mario Cuomo. “The hard work of improving New Yorkers’ lives starts now.”

Every incoming mayor of New York City faces immense challenges. In addition to those, Mamdani, 34, has never been in an executive role before, and has only been in the Assembly for about five years. He’ll have to regain New Yorkers’ trust in government after they watched the implosion of a corruption-scarred Adams a

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