New York law spells out that four-year mayoral terms start on the January 1 after elections. To avoid any ambiguity about who's in charge of America's most populous city, it has become a tradition to hold a small midnight swearing-in.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is expected to announce his choice for schools chancellor Wednesday afternoon.

Trump seized on Mamdani’s rise as one of the left’s leading figures to warn he spelled disaster for NYC. Then he won, and Trump changed his tune.

Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim mayor, will use two family Qurans and one that belonged to the writer Arturo Schomburg at his two swearing-in ceremonies.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is closing 2025 with a still-evolving image of the team that is going to help steer his government and enact an ambitious agenda to tackle the affordability crisis in the nation’s largest city.

Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim mayor, will be sworn in at midnight in the Old City Hall Station under City Hall in Manhattan. The station shutdown in 1945, but has become something of a tourist attraction because of its preserved architectural beauty.

As Zohran Mamdani prepares to be inaugurated as the city’s next mayor, Muslim New Yorkers say his victory represents more than a historic first.

The mayor-elect’s past call to defund the city’s police department continue to be a vulnerability. His decision to retain Jessica Tisch, the city’s current police commissioner, has eased some concerns about a radical shakeup at the top of the nation’s largest police force.

Zohran Mamdani is New York City's new mayor. Here's what to know about him, including his age and family life.