Mayor Zohran Mamdani threw himself a great big bash to celebrate his first 100 days in office, and even launched a website so his faithful comrades can track his “achievements” across the city — despite reneging on numerous campaign promises.
Hizzoner headlined his party with a speech at the 3,200-seat Knockdown Center in Queens Sunday evening, where he doubled down on inaugural vows to govern New York as a staunch socialist while his staff set up a cringey, self-congratulatory museum pop-up of his fledgling time as mayor.
“As I said on that freezing January afternoon to more than eight and a half million New Yorkers — ‘We will govern without shame and insecurity, making no apology for what we believe,” Mamdani said, according to excerpts of his prepared remarks reviewed by The Post.
“‘I was elected as a democratic socialist, and I will govern as a democratic socialist,’” said the remarks, which quoted himself. “For 102 days, we have done just that.”
Mamdani plans to list numerous achievements, which include dedicating some time to the various potholes paved during his first 100 days in office.
“By the end of this year, the Department of Transportation will repave 1,150 lane miles of our streets,” Mamdani’s remarks said. “On day six, when we paved the bump at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge, that was pothole politics.
“If government can’t do the small things, how could you ever trust it to do the big ones?” the mayor’s remarks noted. “How can we promise to transform our city if we can’t pave your street?”
Other accomplishments he listed included his pilot program for city-run day care, a proposal to get rid of scaffolding sheds, along with modifications to make sewer drains more effective.
The mayor’s party even had a “100 days museum,” which featured a kid-sized podium from his day care announcement, and leftovers from the Taco Bell wrapper and drink he devoured during a March Q&A he gave about fast food worker initiatives.
And the soaring rhetoric that helped propel the 34-year-old to office was on full display at the Sunday party.
“Some said that once the hard work began, we would forget the movement of working people that rewrote what was possible in this city,” the mayor’s remarks said. “Others warned that the left could only debate but could never deliver. Socialists might be able to win a campaign, they said, but we could never advance an agenda. Far more wanted to believe — but didn’t know how.
“We hold a mighty responsibility in our hands,” he continued. “It is not just the responsibility of governing with honesty and integrity or delivering relentless improvement — it is to demonstrate that government can fix problems. To prove that government can be worthy of the people it serves.”
Less prominent, however, were the numerous sweeping campaign promises Mamdani failed to follow through on in his first 100 days.
Among them was his vow to halt his predecessor Eric Adams’ initiative to clear homeless encampments and let vagrants keep living in dangerous squalor if they wanted — but he did away with that plan after a series of brutal winter storms led to freezing deaths in encampments.
Another shortcoming included his “Department of Community Safety,” which was to have social workers responding to non-violent 911 calls instead of police at the price of about $1.1 billion in funding.
Instead, the much-hyped program has been languishing with a budget of $260 million and just two staffers.
Mamdani also proclaimed during his campaign that he would dedicate .5% of the city budget to libraries — but brazenly abandoned that promise, and instead slashed funding by $30 million.
Nevertheless, Sunday’s party was just one of several celebrations of his first 100 days, which were marked on Friday.
Mamdani appeared alongside the nation’s socialist-in-chief — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — at a union rally Sunday afternoon ahead of the 100-days bash.
He even launched an interactive map of the city tracking dozens of events from his first hundred days, complete with numerous photos of the mayor smiling with happy children and New Yorkers.
And it all comes just days after Mamdani scored an approval rating of just 48% in a Marist College poll — compared to the 61% Mayor Adams got during his first 100 days.
“This whole thing is just massive insecurity about how little they’ve actually accomplished,” an Adams administration insider told The Post. “And how much his poll numbers have dropped.”
This is a developing story.
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