Zohran Mamdani sworn in as NYC mayor in midnight ceremony at Previous Metropolis Corridor

New York Metropolis socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was formally sworn in as mayor in a midnight ceremony by New York Lawyer Normal Letitia James.

The early Thursday morning occasion was a personal ceremony the place Mamdani was accompanied by members of the family on the Previous Metropolis Corridor Station, a decommissioned subway station with deep historic roots.

In a press launch, the Mamdani transition group mentioned the midnight swearing was chosen to be at a location symbolizing how the subway system is the “lifeblood of New York” and a “reminder of the town Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is preventing for: a metropolis constructed by and for New Yorkers.”

“When Previous Metropolis Corridor Station first opened in 1904 — one in every of New York’s 28 authentic subway stations — it was a bodily monument to a metropolis that dared to be each lovely and construct nice issues that may remodel working peoples’ lives. That ambition needn’t be a reminiscence confined solely to our previous, nor should or not it’s remoted solely to the tunnels beneath Metropolis Corridor: will probably be the aim of the administration lucky sufficient to serve New Yorkers from the constructing above,” Mamdani mentioned within the press launch.

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“After I take my oath from the station on the daybreak of the New 12 months, I’ll accomplish that humbled by the chance to steer thousands and thousands of New Yorkers into a brand new period of alternative, and honored to hold ahead our metropolis’s legacy of greatness.”

Mamdani used a Quran throughout his swearing-in ceremony, in response to his marketing campaign, making him the primary Muslim mayor of NYC and the primary to be sworn in utilizing a Quran.

On Thursday afternoon, Mamdani can be sworn in publicly by Impartial Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders after opening remarks are delivered at his 1 p.m. inauguration by one other progressive ally, Dem. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani indicators a registry as metropolis clerk Michael McSweeney holds the ebook after Mamdani was sworn in as mayor, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, in New York. (AP Photograph/Yuki Iwamura)

Usually, inauguration tickets are given out to roughly 4,000 folks however the Mamdani transition group says all New Yorkers can be invited to the inauguration and a block occasion instantly following.

The 1 p.m. inauguration will happen on the steps of Metropolis Corridor.

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, middle, arrives along with his spouse Rama Duwaji for a swearing-in ceremony, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, in New York. (AP Photograph/Yuki Iwamura)

Mamdani soundly defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa in early November, capping off a speedy political ascent that began with single-digit help when he introduced his mayoral marketing campaign in October 2024.