New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks during the National Action Network (NAN) Annual Thanksgiving Feeding event in Harlem, New York City, on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2025. AFP via Getty Images

As mayoral transitions go, Zohran Mamdani’s has been relatively quiet. The respite ended last week, as did the fleeting hope that the naive socialist had used the month since his election to get schooled on the complexity of the problems he is about to inherit.

No such luck.

The new mayor, who takes office Jan. 1, inadvertently revealed he has learned nothing about homelessness when he announced Thursday that his administration will not dismantle the fetid camps springing up around the city.

The reason, he claimed, is that Mayor Adams’ policy of removing the camps lacks compas

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