After a quiet Saturday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent Easter Sunday celebrating with New York City Christians across Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
Saturday and Sunday, April 4-5, marked the 94th and 95th days of Zohran Mamdani’s term as mayor. amNewYork is following Mamdani around his first 100 days in office. We are closely tracking his progress on fulfilling campaign promises, appointing key leaders to government posts, and managing the city’s finances. Here’s a summary of what the mayor did yesterday and today.
After a quiet Saturday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent Easter Sunday celebrating with New York City Christians across Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Mamdani started his day at the Bronx Bethany Church of the Nazarene before heading to the Ebenezer Urban Ministry Center in Brooklyn to attend services and deliver remarks.
At Bronx Bethany, Mamdani quoted a speech by Martin Luther King Jr., reflecting on Easter — marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ for Christians — as it relates to social justice.
“We’ve been buried in numerous graves: the grave of economic insecurity, the grave of exploitation, the grave of oppression. We’ve watched justice trampled over and truth crucified,” Mamdani said, quoting King.
Mamdani, describing the holiday as a “time of renewal in our city,” said that faith has “guided so many through moments of hardship, moments of loneliness.”
Like many speeches he has delivered at houses of worship, Mamdani tied the holiday back to his primary focus in office: affordability.
“For working people, life in our city has grown into a heavy burden. Costs have soared, neighborhoods have been left hollow, and it is not a weight that has been borne evenly,” Mamdani said, noting that 200,000 Black New Yorkers have been priced out of the city throughout the past three decades.
Mamdani spoke of the importance of good government and its responsibility to deliver “light” and “ease” to working people. He touted his administration’s agreement with the state in early January to create a free childcare program for two-year-olds in New York City, a hallmark of his campaign for office.
“As we build out universal childcare, we also seek to do so while delivering more housing in this city, because it has become too expensive to call this place our home,” Mamdani said, alluding to his plan to fast-track housing projects on public land in the outer boroughs.
Closing out his remarks, he urged unity, saying that “darkness thrives and arrives when working people are pitted against one another.”
Mamdani delivered nearly identical remarks at the Ebenezer Urban Ministry Center in Brooklyn. He noted that he was excited to be one week away from marking 100 days in office — quipping that the landmark is “like when a child tells you that he’s seven and a half.”
The mayor was set to attend Easter dinner with a group of veterans in the Bronx to close out the day.
Mayor to host 100 days rally in one week
CNN reported on Friday afternoon that Mamdani is set to host a rally on Sunday, April 12 in Maspeth, Queens, to mark 100 days since the start of his term as mayor. Mamdani will speak to the achievements of his time in office so far, including his administration’s progress toward universal childcare, street safety, and the mayor’s public “Rental Ripoff” hearings.
Since his inauguration, Mamdani has had at nearly every press conference a prop sign displaying how many days into his administration has been in office. Sunday’s rally will cap the mayor’s early sprint and offer a chance to fire up a crowd in Maspeth’s Knockdown Center.
The rally will also celebrate firefighters, police, sanitation workers, other municipal workers, and elected officials, according to CNN.
With reporting by Lloyd Mitchell.
