After his historic win as New York City’s first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani surprised everyone by announcing an all-women transition team. The move is being hailed as a bold step toward equality and fresh leadership. His victory marks a generational and cultural shift in NYC politics.
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00:00Last night, we made history. I'm so proud to be standing here today as the mayor-elect of the
00:07greatest city in the world. Over two million New Yorkers cast their ballots. Whether they
00:14were the more than million who supported this campaign, or the others who supported someone
00:20else, or whether they felt too disappointed by the political process to participate at all,
00:25I will work every day to honor the trust that I now hold. The poetry of campaigning may have come
00:32to a close last night at nine, but the beautiful prose of governing has only just begun. The hard
00:39work of improving New Yorkers' lives starts now. That process begins with transition. In the coming
00:47months, I and my team will build a City Hall capable of delivering on the promises of this campaign.
00:55We will form an administration that is in equal parts capable and compassionate, driven by
01:01integrity, and willing to work just as hard as the millions of New Yorkers who call this city home.
01:08And central to that effort is a transition team that is defined by the excellence New Yorkers will
01:14soon come to expect from government. Our team will be directed by Ilana Leopold, whose roots in this
01:21city extend back to her grandmother running the trams on Roosevelt Island. She has extensive experience in
01:27city government and has been a key part of our campaign to become the next mayor of this city.
01:32And it will be led by our formidable co-chairs, former Federal Trade Commissioner Chair Lina Kahn,
01:39former First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres Springer, United Way President and CEO Grace Bonilla, and former Deputy
01:47Mayor for Health and Human Services Melanie Hartzog. Over the coming days, we'll start announcing the
01:54leaders who will implement our agenda. People like deputy mayors who oversee entire areas of government,
02:01and the commissioners who carry out the critical work of city agencies. Some of these people will have
02:07familiar names, others will not. What will unite them will be a commitment to solving old problems with
02:14new solutions. We will cast a wide net. We will speak to the organizers on the front lines of the
02:21fight to improve our city, government veterans with proven track records, policy experts from around
02:26the country and the world, and working people who know better than anyone what their neighborhoods need.
02:32Throughout this campaign, I have worked hard to be accessible and transparent with New Yorkers.
02:38That same spirit will animate this transition and the City Hall we build. Because New Yorkers
02:44deserve a government that they can trust. And on January 1st, when our city celebrates the
02:50inauguration of a new administration, let us also celebrate a new era for our city. One that we all
02:57feel invested in and whose success we all work to achieve. Now, it is my pleasure to invite Ilana
03:05Leopold to deliver a few words. Thank you.
03:11Thank you. Good morning. My name is Ilana Leopold, and I'm very honored to serve as the Executive Director
03:17of Mayor-Elect Mamdani's leadership team. I want to thank Zoran for his faith in me, both on the
03:23campaign trail and in this next exciting chapter of this movement. As a third generation New Yorker,
03:29raised in Michalama Housing and educated at CUNY, I bring to this work a deep appreciation for the
03:36city's promise and a commitment to expanding it for others. I love the city deeply, and I'm so grateful
03:42for the opportunity to help shape its future. I'm also expecting a child soon, and so I want the future
03:49that she inherits to be one of possibility and opportunity. And I want my new family, like so many
03:56others, to be able to rely on the universal child care that Zoran campaigned on. I know from first-hand
04:02experience that no one will fight harder for New Yorkers than Zoran. He has the vision and ambition
04:08necessary to drive down the cost of living so that families like mine can afford to live in the city
04:13we've built. I cannot wait to help our next mayor build a government for and by all New Yorkers. Thank you.
04:26Good morning. My name is Grace Venea, and I am excited to be with all of you today.
04:34I want to congratulate Mayor-elect Mamdani on his historic victory and a campaign that captured the
04:39image of imagination of so many and centered the needs of working New Yorkers as a North Star.
04:45I'm honored to be part of a transition team and eager to work with you to build an administration
04:50that will work tirelessly to ensure working New Yorkers can finally afford to live and raise their
04:55families in the city that they love. As a native of Queens and a daughter of Ecuadorian immigrants
05:02who has dedicated my career to fighting for vulnerable New Yorkers, this appointment
05:06means a lot to me, particularly at a time when our immigrant communities and the people I serve
05:12are under attack. As we stand here today, 1.8 million New York City residents are without benefits to
05:19feed themselves and their families because of the inactions from the federal government. I am confident
05:25that Mayor-elect will always stand by New Yorkers and fight against any federal encroachment and
05:31target the programs our neighbors need to survive. I look forward to helping him to build a working
05:37working to build an effective government that keeps every New Yorker safe, healthy, housed, and built on
05:43the promise of our city and the brilliance of our people.
05:50I want to thank the governor of the electo Mount Donny for his historical victory and for an
05:53campaign that cultivated many and that gave us priority to the needs of the New Yorkers
05:58fighting for surviving in this city. I am very proud to be part of your transition team and I am ready to
06:06work with you to build an administration that is a hard time to ensure that all New Yorkers can
06:15can live and grow their families in this city that we love so much.
06:20In this precise moment, 1.8 million residents of the city of New York
06:26care care of benefits to feed their families and themselves
06:31due to the inaction of the federal government.
06:34I believe that the governor-elect always will defend the New Yorkers
06:38and will fight against any federal action
06:41that affect negatively the programs that our neighbors need to survive.
06:47I hope to help build a effective government
06:51that guarantee the safety, health and housing of all New Yorkers
06:57and that take advantage of the potential of our city and talent of our people.
07:01Thank you very much.
07:11Good morning. My name is Mel Hartzog.
07:15No one calls me Melanie except my mother when I'm in trouble.
07:18And I'm so excited to be with you all today.
07:21I first want to start off by congratulating our mayor-elect Mondani
07:26on an impressive and amazing campaign and victory last night.
07:31In my day job, I lead the New York Foundling,
07:34one of the city's largest and oldest social service organizations.
07:38I've previously served across two administrations
07:41as the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services,
07:44Director of the Office of Management and Budget,
07:46Deputy Commissioner for the Administration for Children's Services,
07:49among other roles.
07:51There's one thing I've been reminded of in this work time and time again.
07:55It all comes down to economics.
07:57Paying your rent, putting food on the table, taking care of your kids.
08:01That's what New Yorkers care deep down about
08:04and that's what the mayor-elect has so successfully tapped into.
08:08It's my honor to join the mayor-elect and this incredible group of women
08:12who epitomize public service
08:14to make sure that we bring the very best, brightest, and most principled people
08:18to deliver for our fellow New Yorkers on this moment of promise.
08:22Thank you so much.
08:23Good morning, everybody. It's great to see you all.
08:30I want to start off by just congratulating our mayor-elect, Mamdani,
08:34on an incredible victory and a just remarkable campaign this last year.
08:39I think what we saw last night was New Yorkers not just electing a new mayor,
08:44but clearly rejecting a politics where outsized corporate power and money too often end up dictating our politics.
08:52And a clear mandate for change where New Yorkers can get ahead
08:57and where all workers and small businesses can thrive, not just get by.
09:01I think what we saw through the campaign was an operation that showed extraordinary discipline, rigor, talent.
09:09And I know that Zoran has the vision and courage to make sure that we can actually deliver.
09:15It's such an honor to get to be part of his transition team.
09:19And I'm so excited to work with the co-chairs to make sure that we are building an administration
09:23that can hit the ground running on day one and deliver for all New Yorkers.
09:28Thank you so much.
09:32Good morning, everyone.
09:34My name is Maria Torres-Springer.
09:36And first and foremost, I want to congratulate the mayor-elect on his extraordinary victory last night
09:43and on building a campaign for and by the people.
09:47I'm so thrilled to join his transition team of extraordinary women, by the way,
09:53and help ensure that his administration is ready to govern boldly and effectively on day one.
10:01As the daughter of immigrants who believed in the promise of this country,
10:06and as a proud New Yorker who loves and believes deeply in this city,
10:11I have so admired the way the mayor-elect ran a campaign that reminded us that home
10:18is both our greatest challenge and the greatest hope for our future.
10:22I remain deeply proud of the work that I did across three mayoral administrations
10:29to make our city more affordable and more just.
10:32This has been my life's work.
10:34And I'm eager to bring that experience, all of the lessons learned,
10:38what worked, what didn't, to help the mayor-elect achieve early, tangible wins for New Yorkers.
10:45Despite the headwinds we face as a city and as a country, the mayor-elect has truly rekindled something very powerful.
10:55Our shared faith in New York's capacity to do big things and to dream boldly.
11:02Importantly, he and I share an undimmed belief in government's capacity to deliver for working people.
11:10An undimmed belief in public service capacity to not just meet, not even just exceed, but defy expectations.
11:20So thank you, Mayor-elect, for this opportunity.
11:23I look forward to helping you build an administration that gets to work joyfully and urgently
11:31to lower costs, build homes, expand childcare, and ensure that every New Yorker can build life of dignity
11:40in this city that we all love.
11:46We'll continue your questions and the co-chairs are available to answer questions as well.
11:50We'll start with you, Marsha.
11:52I look forward to being the mayor for every person that calls this city home.
12:21That includes the Jewish New Yorkers that voted for our campaign and those that didn't.
12:26My responsibility is to all 8.5 million New Yorkers.
12:29And we chose this location as a reflection of the borough that I serve
12:34and the fact that we are proud to be known as the world's borough.
12:37And for far too long, that embrace of so much of what makes New York City special, so much of what makes it the place that we are proud to call it our home, it has been missing in our leaders in this city.
12:50And I'm excited to be the first immigrant to lead this city in a generation.
12:54Disconnect the table.
12:55Disconnect the table.
12:56I'm excited more, frankly, to deliver on an agenda of affordability alongside these incredible co-chairs for New Yorkers across the five miles.
13:04Disconnect the table.
13:05Yes?
13:06Um, right here, Jessica.
13:07Josie, right here.
13:08Hey.
13:09Hi, Lori.
13:10We lost it, but it's back.
13:11This is a member of your transition team to expand different welfare experiences while
13:16you're not seeing people specialize in education, or people think you have to be able to make
13:22an agenda, or you're going to be able to make an agenda for the transition team.
13:28And then, this morning, I'm going to provide a commissioner and a couple who has something
13:34involved in the transportation, and I know you've talked about how important the future
13:39administration will expand the ideologies.
13:41Do you have to be concerned that maybe some of that can be more clear?
13:47I look at these four incredible co-chairs of our transition team, and what I see are those
13:54who have had their careers defined by an excellence that we want to characterize the very city hall
14:01that we are looking to build.
14:03These will be the leaders of our transition, and also this transition will expand and extend
14:10beyond any one specific set of issue areas.
14:12So, the topics of education and public safety continue to be of immense importance.
14:17We continue to prepare for the delivery on those very issues, alongside the others that concern New Yorkers,
14:22and that will be the work of the next 57 days.
14:25And, just to your second question, I am willing to consider anyone to work in my city hall,
14:32so long as they are committed to working for my administration and to delivering on an agenda
14:37at a lower cost for New Yorkers in the most expensive city of the United States.
14:39All right, I'm going to say I'm over here.
14:40I'm going to say I'm over here.
14:41I have two questions.
14:42One, what did you New Yorkers know that you were asking from Mayor Adams during the transition
14:46for the next two months?
14:47And second, you are not going to be the mayor for the next two months, but for months now,
15:00ICE agents have been abducting immigrants out of 46 Federal Plaza.
15:04What is your message to the ICE agents abducting immigrants?
15:11My message to ICE agents and to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law.
15:20If you violate the law, you must be held accountable.
15:23And there is sadly a sense that is growing across this country that certain people are allowed to violate that law,
15:30whether they be the president or whether they be the agents themselves.
15:33And what New Yorkers are looking for is an era of consistency, an era of clarity, an era of conviction.
15:38And that is what we will deliver to them.
15:40And I am looking forward to having conversations with Mayor Adams and his administration about the work of the transition to ensure that the handover is a seamless one,
15:51and that it is one that benefits the shared work we all have to deliver for the people who call the city home.
15:57Thank you, Beatrice.
15:59Congratulations on your victory.
16:02Everybody's asking too.
16:04I've made my intention clear to retain Commissioner Tish, and I look forward to having conversations with her on that very subject.
16:31Last night, I spent time with my wife, with close members of my team.
16:37As we watched the results come in, I spoke briefly with Curtis Sliwa,
16:42and then I headed to address the thousands of New Yorkers that were there, waiting to hear of what this new era of government will look like.
16:50And that is always my focus.
16:52Not on the candidates of this past election, but rather on the people that are so often left behind by our politics,
16:57and I look forward to serving them.
16:59Hi, I'm Morgan.
17:02Doing well. How are you, Morgan?
17:03Hey.
17:04Hi.
17:14Hi.
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17:27The mayor is seemingly unsatisfied with a record of raising rents by more than 12% on
17:44more than 2 million New Yorkers, and has gone so far as to consider appointing someone to
17:49the Rent Guidelines Board who is known for being a star, I think on a show called Selling
17:54New York, and in many ways that's the description of what he wants to do over these next few
18:00months.
18:01I continue to believe in the importance of delivering relief for the 8.5 million people
18:06who love this city, who live in this city, but cannot afford to continue to be here.
18:10And last night I spoke of Wesley, an 1199 organizer that I met outside of Elmhurst Hospital less
18:19than a week ago, and as I asked him how long it took him to get to work, he told me two
18:23hours, I asked him where were you coming from, he told me Pennsylvania.
18:27That for many New Yorkers is now the reality where they have to live elsewhere because
18:30they can't afford to live in the places they love.
18:33And that has to be our compass in guiding the work that we do to ensure that we can make
18:39this a city that is livable, and make this a city that finally turns the page on an era
18:44of big money and small ideas.
18:57I am looking forward to having every member of my coalition being a part of our transition.
19:02The transition will be guided by the work that we need to do, and the coalition that brought
19:07me to this point has done an immense amount of work and has also been leading in the fight
19:11for dignity for working class New Yorkers.
19:26First, I just have to say I've spent many days in my youth watching the transfer window
19:30close final hours on Sky News, so it's a pleasure to have you here.
19:34Yeah.
19:35I'm an Arsenal fan.
19:36I have to be honest, when you said you were from Sky News, I just got very excited.
19:40Could you repeat the question one more time?
19:45I think the lesson for the President is that it's not enough to diagnose the crisis in working
20:02class Americans' lives.
20:03You have to deliver on addressing that crisis.
20:06The President who ran a campaign on the promise of cheaper groceries, and now, as was said by
20:11one of our co-chairs, has gone so far as to cut SNAP benefits for close to two million New
20:15Yorkers, someone who is literally making it harder to afford those same groceries whose
20:20price he was decrying not that long ago.
20:22And what scares Republicans across the country is the fact that we will actually deliver on
20:29this agenda.
20:30And the contrast is something that they cannot bear to witness.
20:33And I try to keep my focus similar to that cover on the New Yorker where the world ends
20:39at New Jersey, and thinking about what this means for our city instead of for our nation.
20:45And I will tell you that for our city, what left me with such great hope last night were
20:50the stories from so many New Yorkers who had never voted before, who had lost hope in politics
20:57years ago.
20:58And to stand here before you, having received over a million votes in an election that saw
21:03turnout the likes of which we haven't seen since 1969, it shows that politics once again
21:09is offering more than just a settling for the crumbs that are not able to meet the needs
21:15of so many families across the city.
21:17We are finally offering a vision that can meet the scale of the crisis in working class
21:21New Yorkers lives.
21:23Congratulations.
21:24Thank you very much.
21:25Please.
21:26Thank you very much.
21:27Please.
21:28The question is that this is your university,
21:32if you're able to work with a university,
21:34if you're a university,
21:36if you're a university student,
21:38if you're a university student,
21:40do you have a lesson for him today,
21:42or if you have a lesson for him,
21:44in the walkthrough,
21:46and I'm going to talk to you later.
21:48My second question is about
21:50any of these students
21:52who you left this morning
21:54is that, in and after being
21:56involved during this meeting,
21:58to make sure you're a university person
22:00where he was saying,
22:02the ADL community has launched,
22:04but they're calling,
22:06they should try to hear their creation,
22:08and I guess that's what you can see
22:10in that problem.
22:12So, same question,
22:14how do you think of this
22:18if you're a university student?
22:22I look forward,
22:24I'll first answer your first question,
22:26then I'll go to your second.
22:28I look forward to meeting
22:30with Jamie Dimon,
22:32and meeting with anyone who is concerned
22:34about the future of our city,
22:36and is invested in the vitality of that same city.
22:38And these are not very different
22:40from the conversations I had over the course
22:42of this campaign with many business leaders,
22:44who while we may have disagreements
22:46on fiscal policy,
22:48we also found many areas of agreement
22:50as to what the city actually needed.
22:52It's important that we start to embody a style of leadership
22:54that does not demand agreement
22:56across every single issue
22:58in order to even have a conversation.
23:00We need to be able to deliver for New Yorkers,
23:02and that means to meet New Yorkers,
23:04even those with whom we have any disagreements.
23:06So I look forward to having those kinds of meetings,
23:08be it with Jamie Dimon,
23:10or be it with other business leaders,
23:12and continuing to show that our affordability agenda
23:14is an agenda that would also benefit businesses across the city.
23:18Because what I've heard from many of those same business leaders
23:20is that the inability for city government and state government
23:24to provide universal childcare
23:26has led to businesses sometimes having to provide stipends
23:30to their own employees given the expense of that childcare.
23:32Makes sense because childcare in this city costs an average of $22,500 a year,
23:38which is a burden that many families cannot bear.
23:40And I also look forward to streamlining the regulations within city government.
23:46I am someone who believes deeply in the public sector,
23:48believes deeply in public regulation,
23:50and I also believe if I cannot give you an answer as to why regulation exists,
23:54and it likely doesn't have a good reason to exist any longer.
23:56And that extends to when a restaurant owner told me of the $25 a year
24:00he has to pay the city for the right to sell a frozen dessert,
24:02and it also extends to the way in which we find and feed small businesses across the city,
24:06which is why we've committed to cutting that in half.
24:10And I have not spoken to Jonathan Greenblatt.
24:14I take the issue of anti-Semitism incredibly seriously.
24:18And last night in my speech, I spoke about how my city hall will stand steadfast
24:24with Jewish New Yorkers in fighting the scourge of anti-Semitism across the city
24:29and making that clear in the actions that we deliver on from January 1st.
24:32And I look forward to working with Jewish leaders across this city,
24:36whether they be elected officials, whether they be rabbis,
24:38whether they be community leaders,
24:40to deliver on the promise of not just protecting Jewish New Yorkers,
24:44but celebrating and cherishing them in this same city.
24:46I think that anyone is free to catalog the actions of our administration.
24:56I have some doubts in Jonathan's ability to do so honestly,
25:00given that he previously said I had not visited any synagogues,
25:03only to have to correct himself.
25:05Obviously, I have two questions.
25:07Yes, yes.
25:09It's a two-for-one day.
25:11Oh, yeah.
25:12A little more interesting.
25:13So, on President Trump and on delivering real tangible results,
25:16as you alluded to last night with your new era,
25:18as Maria Torx Jr. just said,
25:20how do you balance or do you give a thought to balancing combating President Trump
25:24while not getting lost in that fight
25:26where you are not delivering the campaign?
25:28And second, I'm just curious,
25:30the quiet hours of the last night you got off stage,
25:34you went along,
25:35maybe you were sitting by yourself,
25:36maybe it was just you and your wife.
25:38I'm wondering what those sort of thoughts in your head were
25:41in those quiet moments after this sort of enormous accomplishment
25:44and the weight of what's about to come in life.
25:50It's very funny.
25:51Everyone is asking two very different questions.
25:53I'm trying to strike the right tone between all of them.
25:56New Yorkers are facing twin crises in this moment,
26:00an authoritarian administration and an affordability crisis.
26:04And it'll be my job to deliver on both.
26:06It'll be my job to stand up for the city
26:08and also to ensure that we do not look at Washington, D.C.
26:12as if it is the reason for all of the problems right here in New York City.
26:15Many of the issues we are speaking about, they predate President Trump.
26:19They are issues that for too long we have turned a blind eye to
26:22or we have sought to rationalize or normalize.
26:24And what I'm so excited by in looking at these incredible women
26:28who will be leading our transition
26:30is a track record of being able to handle multiple crises at the same time.
26:35Crises which so often for others might be the only focus.
26:39For so many of the people on this stage, they were one of many.
26:42And these are the crises of cost. These are the crises of conviction.
26:45These are the crises that have come to describe much of our politics.
26:49And I find immense confidence in the fact that we are already building a team
26:53that has shown its ability to deliver
26:55and that will continue to show that over the next 57 days and beyond.
26:59I cannot tell you that I had many quiet moments between last night and this morning.
27:07But some things that I have been left with, whether it was in sitting with my wife
27:12or with close members of my team without whom none of this would have been possible,
27:18is the sense of hope that New Yorkers have.
27:23When I left the venue yesterday evening,
27:30there were hundreds of New Yorkers waiting outside.
27:33And so many of them were young New Yorkers.
27:36So many of them, it may have been their first vote they were ever eligible to cast.
27:40And in their eyes and in their shouts and in their screams,
27:44I heard the potential for what our politics could be.
27:48And it's a potential for New Yorkers to not only be able to see themselves
27:52in those that lead them, but more importantly, to see their struggles.
27:56And just before this, I heard from an immigrant rights advocate
28:01who said that the moment that made her whole in the speech that I shared
28:06was when I spoke about the city as being one that was built by immigrants,
28:10that was powered by immigrants, and now that will be led by an immigrant.
28:13I think for too long, many New Yorkers have been told
28:16that they're only places in the shadows.
28:19And it's incredibly exciting to stand here alongside these leaders
28:23to embrace the light that the future will hold for all of us in this city.
28:30Thank you very much.
28:34Thank you very much.
28:36One of the things that were seen
28:37is that maybe the Spanish were to do
28:39in the last few weeks after the people who won
28:43the war in the government of Argentina.
28:44Advocating the president,
28:46President Trump,
28:47do you see that happening in terms of the national community
28:51in the country as a visiting city?
28:53A country that they are not going to die all of them
28:55and why are they going to be able to stand for all of us in that situation?
28:58And if not, are you thinking,
29:02the white house hasn't reached out to congratulate me i continue to be interested in having a
29:12conversation with president trump on the ways in which we can work together to serve new yorkers
29:17whether that be delivering on his campaign promises around cost of living or the many
29:22issues that new yorkers have been sharing with me about the drastic impacts that the legislation
29:28that president trump has ushered through washington will mean for them and their lives too often we
29:33understand these impacts solely at an individual level but if we just speak a little bit more
29:37about snap benefits these are not just affecting the close to two million new yorkers who are on
29:42snap these also affect the grocery stores across our city there were a number of mom and pop owned
29:48grocery stores that spoke to me about the fact that in the bronx snap revenues make up more than a
29:52quarter of all of their revenue and this has the impact of decimating their ability to keep their
29:58doors open and so i look forward to having those conversations and to making clear that if there
30:03is ever anything to be spoken about that could benefit the people of the city i am ready and
30:07willing to speak to anyone about it but if it is a conversation to come at the expense of those
30:12people then i will fight that idea tooth and nail because my job is to serve this city
30:28when i speak about trump proofing this city i speak about protecting those with the least from the
30:50consequences of a man with the most power in this country it is in part a reference to the need to
30:56ensure that any fight for additional revenue is one that also looks to try and protect those same
31:04new yorkers from these kinds of cuts to the greatest extent that we can and it's also a commitment to
31:09ensure that so many of the storied parts of city government return back to the moments where they
31:15were on the front lines of fighting for dignity and civil rights and i think specifically of our city's
31:19law department this is a law department that when you think of the seminal civil rights cases of this
31:24country they were there and yet today it has 200 fewer lawyers than it did before covid this is an
31:30example of a lack of interest from an administration in ensuring that we are investing in the tools that
31:36have been proven to protect those same new yorkers and i will not mince my words when it comes to
31:42president trump i will continue to describe his actions as they are and i will also always do so
31:47by leave while leaving a door open to have that conversation because it cannot be understood as if
31:54it is an argument between two individuals i am looking to leave this entire city and everything
32:00that i do must be to the benefit of this city and i look forward to delivering for that same city
32:04well first i'd say we've come a long way since that conversation in astoria park
32:27and it's lovely to see you here you know i think that there were many who said similar things when
32:33we launched our campaign on october 23rd talk to the campaign in six months talk to the campaign in
32:37a year see where they are and what we've shown is that the hunger the dedication the commitment to
32:43excellence and delivering in the ways in which we have been told are impossible this is what will
32:49typify our efforts it has thus far this is what will describe them moving forward and the passion
32:56as maria had said of of an undimmed potential for government to meet the needs of working people
33:04across this city that is something that we fully intend to deliver on this is not these were not
33:10words that were shared as a means by which to inspire people for the purpose of an election these
33:15were commitments that were made that we intend to deliver on to ensure that new yorkers can live in
33:20the city they call home would you i'm sorry could you come a little closer or speak a little louder
33:30how do you respond
33:47i i think i the first thing i did was drink some water and
33:53it took it took a moment for it to settle in
33:55and when it did the you know oftentimes this job is described in with the language of burden
34:08responsibility pressure and those things are true but what is lost is opportunity and that is really
34:17what i felt in that moment when this race was called the opportunity we have to deliver for people
34:23who have come to expect so little from the politics of their city and that is an opportunity that
34:30is at the heart of what motivates me each and every day and i look forward to fulfilling the trust
34:37that was put in me by the more than one million new yorkers who voted for our campaign and also by new
34:43yorkers who've had concerns or skepticism i don't begrudge them because they were subject to tens of
34:48millions of dollars in attack ads that told them the thing that should keep them up at night was me
34:53when in fact what i've heard from new yorkers that the thing that keeps them up at night is the cost
34:57of rent of groceries of child care and so i look forward to earning their trust as well because
35:03my vision of success is not that those who are skeptical leave this city it's that those who are
35:07skeptical stay here in this city that we build a city that has room for even more to join us because
35:13this is a city that has to grow this is a city that has to thrive and the way that we will do so is
35:18by bringing an excellence back into city hall where it becomes the expectation not the exception
35:27oh incredible
35:41my first day in city hall will look like my last day
35:44it will be focused on the cost of living crisis it will be focused on delivering for the new yorkers
35:49who have been priced out of this city one in four new yorkers currently living in poverty across the
35:54five boroughs and what excites me so much about being on the stage alongside these incredible leaders
36:00is that this is not a job that can be done alone this is not a job that can be done by one person with
36:06one vision it is a job that must be done by a team a team that is united in purpose in fulfilling the
36:12agenda that we ran on an agenda of affordability and for too long we have heard from politicians who
36:21have told us what they can't do and in reality what they mean to say is what they won't do and i'm
36:26excited to prove that making people's lives better is not simply an ideal it is something that we can
36:33fulfill in the day-to-day work of our administration thank you very much
36:55i think the governor has set a very good example for what it can look like to both
36:59keep a door open to speak with anyone about anything that could serve the interests of the
37:04people of this state while also refusing to sacrifice those same people for the purpose of
37:08maintaining a relationship and that is exactly the approach that i will take is when president trump
37:14wants to do something that will benefit this city i will be there to say as much but if he is looking
37:19to persecute or prosecute or punish the people of this city by virtue of who they are or where they
37:25live or where they came from and i will fight him on that i think too often we have had a style of
37:29leadership that seeks to put oneself before the people that you're looking to serve and my city hall
37:35will do the opposite oh thank you um so knowing that there is such a microscope how do you remember
37:47the calls and processes who you surround yourself with in fact which is your first day after the
37:52event is the way you want to do something that you say you want to do something that you want to be
37:55you know this is a group that exemplifies the excellence i've long spoken about
38:13it is an excellence that new yorkers have seen across multiple mayoral administrations
38:18it is an excellence that they have seen at the federal level and it's an excellence
38:22that has been displayed amidst a conviction of what government can and should and must do for new
38:28yorkers and i'm excited by the prospect of them leading this transition to deliver for those same
38:36new yorkers and i also am clear with the more than 100 000 volunteers who brought me to this point
38:44with the more than million new yorkers who voted for our campaign that the work does not end with an
38:49election in fact it continues until we deliver this agenda and that delivery will be something that
38:55we do over weeks and months and years and it'll be something that we will take immensely seriously
39:01because it is a delivery that will fulfill the hope that so many have put in us
39:04can we can we do the first one i'll answer them and go the second one
39:22well thank you for the questions transition 2025.com and you know there were a few months ago where i told
39:30supporters across the city to stop donating and today i am asking them to start once again and i
39:37am asking them to do so because of the fact that a transition that can meet the moment of preparing
39:43for january 1st is one that will require staff it will require research it will require infrastructure
39:49and those are things that we will have to provide and i'm excited for the fact that it will be funded by
39:54the very people who brought us to this point the working people who have been left behind by the politics of the city
39:59i did get a text from my super late this night
40:19look i i have been told time and time again and i've embraced it to not measure the drapes and here i am
40:24the day after being asked to use a ruler and i will tell you that my focus right now is on the
40:29transition team i will speak with my wife i will think about this further but when i have something
40:34to share it will be done so publicly
40:39andrew cuomo did it
40:42okay two two questions again the first one has the mayor or anyone invited you to city hall do you have
40:50plans to go to city hall to meet with you in the coming days the mayor has not invited me as yet to
40:55go to city hall but i look forward to having those conversations about the transition okay for the last
40:59four years we've heard a lot about brooklyn brooklyn brooklyn they've got the leaders in the house and
41:03senate the mayor all sorts of power is queens having its moment you spoke about this a little bit
41:10standing here like is this is this borough on top now you know i i don't see it as a question of which
41:18borough is on top i am looking to serve every single one of the five boroughs and in each of these boroughs i find
41:25so much of the inspiration of the work that we have to do in city hall and i'm also proud to represent
41:31queens in the state legislature i'm proud to be a resident and a assembly member for astoria and for
41:39long island city and i'm proud that we are standing here today in the world's borough to embrace what
41:47gives so many so much meaning as to what it means to be a new yorker here in this moment today
41:51all right this guy's trying to get me to go against other boroughs unbelievable
41:59where's the suit
42:03well i i appreciated bill ackman's tweet and the sentiment of it and i will continue to have
42:28conversations with anyone who is committed to the welfare of this city the vitality of this city
42:33and those are the conversations i will have over the next 57 days and beyond
42:44i can tell you what it means in this city it means that the idea of a politics built around the
42:52delivery of dignity to each and every person who calls the city home that that politics is alive
42:58and well and for too long we have spent our time debating who deserves that dignity as opposed to
43:05delivering it to each and every person who calls the city home
43:08you know even amidst my many critiques that i have of the adams administration we have to have a sober
43:28analysis of the work that is done in any single administration and i think that city of yes is
43:32something that is a significant and good step forward i think that trash containerization is
43:38another example of something that we should continue to pursue and these are examples to me of
43:45some of the issues which have
43:48been long recognized by new yorkers as ones that need to be contended with by government and ones that
43:53have simply been ignored and i look forward to continuing on those issues and then correcting the
43:57course in many in other areas of city government and i look forward to working with the council and
44:04with the next speaker on delivering on an agenda of affordability for each and every person that calls
44:08the city home thank you guys so much thank you all
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