New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji began moving into the official mayoral residence on Monday (January 12, 2026), leaving behind their leaky, one-bedroom apartment in Queens for a fully staffed mansion in Manhattan. As workers unloaded cardboard boxes stuffed with houseplants and rolled up carpets, Mr. Mamdani marked the latest inaugural rite of passage with a press conference on his new riverfront lawn. Mr. Mamdani spent most of his childhood on the other side of Central Park, in a Manhattan apartment subsidized by Columbia University, where his father works as a professor. And while Mamdani won his former neighbourhood of Astoria overwhelmingly, his opponent, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, won the Upper East Side by double digits.

Source: The Hindu January 13, 2026 04:54 UTC