Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said that the key to his recent successful closed door meeting with President Donald Trump was a shared interest in the cost of living and making the city better.

“Too often, when two politicians meet, the conversation rarely extends beyond them,” Mamdani said Sunday at a news conference outside of Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church in the Bronx. “And what we found instead is that this was a conversation that was productive, a conversation that was focused on New York City and a conversation that looks to deliver for the people of New York City.”

Mamdani said he was “feeling good” in his first appearance back in New York City since his trip to the nation’s capital.

Politicians across the country, analysts and local New Yorkers reacted with surprise to the n

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