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A Muslim mayor with a Hindu background, Zohran Mamdani has embraced different aspects of his identity as mayor of New York City. A Muslim mayor with a Hindu background, Zohran Mamdani has embraced different aspects of his identity as mayor of New York City.

Zohran Mamdani: Muslim, Hindu, African, South Asian, New Yorker

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Zohran Mamdani: Muslim, Hindu, African, South Asian, New Yorker

A Muslim mayor with a Hindu background, Zohran Mamdani has embraced different aspects of his identity as mayor of New York City.

How the mayor is navigating his identity - and how fellow desi New Yorkers feel about it.

  • By Yashica Dutt
  • May 4, 2026
PoliticsShow All

2026 New York state elections

Will the real progressive please stand up in the race for state comptroller?

The candidates running against incumbent Tom DiNapoli in his first-ever primary are each jockeying to position themselves as the true progressive choice in the contest.

  • By Rebecca C. Lewis

News & Politics

Progressive wars: Raj Goyle claims support from trans activist who endorsed Drew Warshaw

The state comptroller candidate posted, unposted, reposted and unposted a video of himself with trans activist Evanna Vasquez.

  • By Rebecca C. Lewis

Heard Around Town

Hello from the other side: CM Lincoln Restler’s wife Anna Poe-Kest works at OMB

COIB is cool with it, but a political power couple across the table of a contentious budget process has raised some eyebrows.

  • By Sahalie Donaldson

Heard Around Town

WFP doesn’t want Schlossberg

The New York Working Families Party may reopen its endorsement process in NY-12.

  • By Jeff Coltin
PolicyShow All

Housing

Seeking SEQR, with Mamdani’s housing commissioner

A Q&A with HPD boss Dina Levy, who visited Albany while the budget’s being negotiated.

  • By Rebecca C. Lewis

Campaigns & Elections

Claire Valdez calls for a rent freeze – and universal rent control

The DSA-backed congressional candidate is going a step further than Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

  • By Peter Sterne

Child care

Childcare providers and lawmakers want $500M to eliminate waitlists

Providers say Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to achieve universal childcare is promising, but millions more are needed to support the workforce to make it a reality.

  • By Kate Lisa

Policy

A limit on informal ICE collusion is nixed from budget talks

Lawmakers and the governor had been at odds over informal local cooperation with immigration agents in civil and criminal matters

  • By Rebecca C. Lewis and Kate Lisa
PersonalityShow All

Personality

Book excerpt: Igniting a revolution in New York

How the Empire State received word of the Declaration of Independence.

  • By City & State

Interviews & Profiles

City’s first ‘close Rikers czar’ starts this month

Dana Kaplan will work to get the complex replaced with four borough-based jails.

  • By Sahalie Donaldson

Personality

This week’s biggest Winners & Losers

Who’s up and who’s down this week?

  • By City & State

Events

At NYC Power 100 event, Tisch commends Mamdani for leading with ‘SRG’

The police commissioner joked that the mayor has the core principle of “Support, Reinforce and Grow.”

  • By Holly Pretsky
Events CalendarShow All
May 7, 9:00 am ET
Live Event
NY Affordable Housing Summit 2026
 
May 20, 6:30 pm ET
Live Event
2026 Nonprofit Trailblazers
 
Jun 4, 9:00 am ET
Live Event
Closing the Gap: Food Access and Affordability in NYC Legislative Breakfast and Panel
 
Jun 11, 8:30 am ET
Live Event
2026 Nonprofit OpCon
 
May 7, 9:00 am ET
Live Event
NY Affordable Housing Summit 2026
 
May 20, 6:30 pm ET
Live Event
2026 Nonprofit Trailblazers
 
Jun 4, 9:00 am ET
Live Event
Closing the Gap: Food Access and Affordability in NYC Legislative Breakfast and Panel
 
Jun 11, 8:30 am ET
Live Event
2026 Nonprofit OpCon
 
Power ListsShow All

Trailblazers

The 2026 Asian Trailblazers

Leaders of New York’s Asian American communities.

  • By City & State

New York City

The 2026 New York City Power 100

The city’s movers and shakers in the new Mamdani era.

  • By City & State

Who's Who

The 2026 Who’s Who in Energy

The executives, advocates and environmentalists shaping New York’s energy future.

  • By City & State

Who's Who

The 2026 Who’s Who in Government Relations

Notable figures influencing policy and spending in New York.

  • By City & State
OpinionShow All

Opinion

Opinion: Economic development + economic justice = economic diversity

Increasing economic diversity is a strategy for both growth and justice.

  • By Daniel Wortel-London and Lisa Chamberlain

Opinion

Opinion: All media needs help

New York state’s local journalism sustainability program should include nonprofit newsrooms, too.

  • By Tom Allon

Opinion

Opinion: Legalize bodega cats

Keeping cats in bodegas and other retailers is technically prohibited by city and state law, but our legislation would fix that.

  • By Frank Morano and Keith Powers

Opinion

Opinion: The Climate Law puts dollars into Black and Latino communities

Strong leadership should protect it, not gut it.

  • By Marcela Mitaynes
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NYN MediaShow All

NYN Media

Opinion: Stop treating aging New Yorkers like an afterthought

Millions of New Yorkers rely on family caregivers, and they deserve more than a delayed budget.

  • By Beth Finkel

Nonprofits

NYC public school grads have raised $1 million for their fellow alumni to attend college

With its funding model being replicated by the Trump administration, NYC Kids Rise Scholarship accounts continue to build safety nets for public school kids.

  • By Phenix Kim

NYN Media

Report: New York fails to meet federal outcomes for child protective services

From delays in permanency hearings to weaknesses in staff and provider training, The New York State Citizen Review Panel underlines the bleak state of foster care.

  • By Phenix Kim

NYN Media

Opinion: Permanent supportive housing works. Let’s not undo it.

New York must protect and promote the best evidence-based solution to homelessness despite federal threats.

  • By Junior Dillion