Mayor Zohran Mamdani directed city agencies to make plans to comply with rules governing health and safety at the facilities, and said they must work to end solitary confinement.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York said the city must work with the federal monitor overseeing the city’s jails, including the Rikers Island complex, to end solitary confinement.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the numbers on Tuesday. Officials attributed the rise in rapes in part to a change in the state definition of sexual assault.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City, speaking at his first news conference with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, thanked rank-and-file police officers “for the work that you all do in making today possible.”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, center, and Gov. Kathy Hochul, to his left, agree on the need for congestion pricing, but seem to still be apart on the mayor’s goal of making buses free.
Mr. Mamdani, a staunch critic of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians, knew he would not extend the orders, but he had to decide how and when he would rescind them.
On his first day in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani revoked every order that former Mayor Eric Adams issued after his indictment in September 2024 on federal corruption charges.
Mamdani continues his NYC reform agenda with a new civic engagement office and judicial recruitment changes, promising greater transparency as the Adams era ends.
It took less than 24 hours for Zohran Mamdani to prove he is the worst possible nightmare for already nervous New York Jews. Mere hours after becoming New York’s new mayor on Thursday, the 34-year-old Democratic Socialist began enacting the strident anti-Israel (and, many insist, antisemitic) ideological agenda that fuelled his election victory. Read More
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