Mamdani taps party insiders to steer transition despite vowing to ‘turn the page’ on old-guard NYC Dems

Zohran Mamdani vowed Tuesday night during his victory address to "turn the page" on old-guard New York City Democrats, but within less than 24-hours the mayor-elect of New York City announced a transition team comprised of folks with ties to the administrations of Bill de Blasio, Eric Adams, Michael Bloomberg and Joe Biden. "Let tonight be the final time I utter [Andrew Cuomo's] name, as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few," Mamdani said Tuesday evening as he touted a new political order for New York City at his victory address at the Brooklyn Para