Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday announced Afua Atta-Mensah, who led his campaign outreach to Black voters, as the director of the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice.
“I want to be very public that there’s a new cop on the beat,” said Samuel Levine, the new commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.
Though small business advocates in New York are excited that Mayor Zohran Mamdani is tackling the issue of excessive fees and fines, they’ve heard similar promises before.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has become the latest leader of New York City to try to streamline rules that some say make it more difficult for small businesses to succeed.
James Luckey-Lange, 28, was released this week with several other U.S. citizens from the country’s notorious prison system after going missing in December, his family said.
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