يترشح زهران ممداني لمنصب العمدة بهدف خفض تكاليف المعيشة للطبقة العاملة في نيويورك.

Mr. Mamdani, who has called on Mr. Adams to resign, said in an interview that the mayor had failed New Yorkers. He said that he would focus his campaign on addressing the city’s affordability crisis.

In 2021, Mamdani went on a 15-day hunger strike to protest predatory loans that targeted the taxi drivers who purchased “medallions”, the physical certificate required to operate a yellow cab. The city eventually caved and struck a deal with medallion loan guarantors, securing $450m in transformative debt relief for these drivers.

In the crowded 2025 mayoral primary race, Zohran Mamdani stands out. The 33-year-old Queens State Assemblymember was behind the City's first free bus pilot, introduced legislation that would bar charities from funding illegal Israeli settlements, and went on a hunger strike to secure debt relief for taxi drivers. Mamdani was born and raised in Uganda until he moved to New York at the age of seven, and would be the city's first Muslim mayor.

The New York City mayoral candidate explains how free buses, free childcare, a rent freeze, and city-run grocery stores would make life easier for working-class New Yorkers.

A New York City mayoral candidate wants the city to open its own, more affordable grocery stores. The idea has gained momentum in Chicago and other cities.