One former city official's view of where he’s excelled and where he’s come up short
Elected officials — executives especially — are typically two things at once. They’re politicians who run for office, usually because they want attention and validation and power. And they’re leaders responsible for the actual functioning of whatever they run. It’s still early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty, but now that we’re six months in, it’s worth taking a measure of his performance on both fronts.
