In his first week as mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani tried to bridge the political theater of his campaign with the much harder work of governing.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani described a complex and expensive expansion of child care in New York City that would add programs for 2-year-olds.
The announcement came days into the term of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, center, a democratic socialist who ran on a promise to make child care free for all New York City children under 5.