City-run grocery stores, defunding police, safe injection sites: What to know about NYC's next potential mayor

A comparative chartless until now, antiauthoritarian socialist Zohran Mamdani propelled himself to a stunning upset triumph successful New York City's Democratic superior aft moving connected a level that included a laundry database of far-left docket items, including authorities spending, taxation hikes connected corporations and the affluent and a slew of different argumentation positions deemed by some Republicans and Democrats arsenic radical.

Chief among his run promises has been his vow to redirect taxation funds distant from subsidies to backstage market chains to make a web of city-owned grocery stores, which helium says volition beryllium "focused connected keeping prices low, not making a profit."

In a TikTok video, Mamdani said that his city-run market stores volition "operate without a nett motive," alternatively of focusing connected "price gouging" arsenic helium alleged immoderate backstage stores do. He claimed that without having to wage rent oregon spot taxes, these city-run stores volition bargain and merchantability astatine wholesale prices, centralize warehousing and distribution, and beryllium capable to connection New York residents little prices than privately owned stores successful the city.

"Grocery prices are retired of control," helium said successful the video. "The occupation of metropolis authorities isn’t to tinker astir the edges portion 1 successful 4 children crossed our metropolis spell hungry."

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Zohran Mamdani, New York City mayoral candidate, during an predetermination nighttime lawsuit successful New York, US, aboriginal connected Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Another cardinal tenet of Mamdani’s run has been his vow to ace down connected "bad landlords" by having the metropolis instrumentality power of properties erstwhile a landlord refuses to marque repairs oregon "demonstrates accordant neglect" of their tenants. He besides believes helium tin hole New York City’s affordable lodging situation by instantly freezing the rents of the implicit 2 cardinal New York residents who unrecorded successful rent-stabilized apartments.

To code the city’s information crisis, Mamdani has said helium volition make a caller authorities bureau called the Department of Community Safety (DCS) that helium says volition utilize "evidence-based strategies that forestall unit and transgression earlier they occur." Among the caller agency’s apical priorities, arsenic stated by Mamdani successful a run video, volition beryllium to grow weapon unit programs, code hatred and tackle homelessness. The bureau would besides deploy mental wellness workers to subways and occupation spots, which helium said "will marque each of america safer."

He has besides pledged to institute cosmopolitan escaped childcare for children aged 6 weeks to 5 years arsenic good arsenic to rise wages for childcare workers to beryllium connected par with nationalist schoolhouse teachers.

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Ella Emhoff attends an predetermination nighttime gathering for New York mayoral campaigner State Rep. Zohran Mamdani (D-NY) astatine The Greats of Craft LIC connected June 24, 2025 successful the Long Island City vicinity of the Queens borough successful New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Other priorities see his pledge to champion a instrumentality to rise the minimum wage successful New York City to $30 an hr by 2030 and expanding backing for hatred unit prevention programs by 800%.

Another large tenet of Mamdani’s level is "Trump-proofing" New York City. He made headlines successful March erstwhile authorities had to clasp him backmost portion helium yelled and verbally berated Trump’s borderline czar Tom Homan, who was visiting the New York authorities Capitol building.

His website states that President Donald Trump's migration enforcement, tariffs and different policies are "tearing astatine the cloth of New York City." 

Mamdani’s website states that helium volition fortify the city’s sanctuary metropolis apparatus by kicking ICE out of each metropolis facilities and ending immoderate practice with the agency, arsenic good arsenic expanding ineligible enactment for immigrants and shielding their idiosyncratic data.

His website further states that, arsenic mayor, Mamdani volition marque New York City an LGBTQ+ sanctuary metropolis and support "reproductive rights."

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Perhaps adjacent much controversial, however, are the argumentation positions Mamdani has antecedently advocated for but has not made cardinal parts of his campaign.

During his campaign, Mamdani attempted to warrant the usage of the operation "globalize the intifada" and stayed steadfast successful his enactment for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions effort against Israel, calling it a "legitimate movement."

He has antecedently called to defund the New York Police Department, though helium has since stated that "police person a captious relation to play." Following the decease of George Floyd, Mamdani tweeted connected June 8, 2020, that helium did not privation to betterment the constabulary but asserted, "We privation to defund the police."

In different tweet aboriginal that month, Mamdani wrote, "We don’t request an probe to cognize that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a large menace to nationalist safety. What we request is to #DefundTheNYPD … NO to fake cuts – defund the police."

In November 2020, Mamdani again tweeted, "queer liberation means defund the police."

In 2020, Mamdani besides called for the situation strategy to beryllium dismantled, saying that it is simply a strategy that cages and kills those conscionable trying to "survive."

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Democratic mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani takes the signifier astatine his superior predetermination enactment connected Wednesday, June 25, 2025 successful New York. (Heather Khalifa/AP Photo)

"As socialists, we judge radical should not person to endure unit & coercion of a criminal-legal strategy that props up the exploitation of the marketplace by surveilling, caging & sidesplitting those warring to past nether capitalism," helium said, adding, "We tin abolish that system."

He called connected the New York authorities assembly to combat the operation of immoderate caller prisons and alternatively put those funds successful communities "that person been impacted by wide incarceration."

Again successful 2021, helium said, "Our situation strategy relies connected dehumanization and brutality, truthful the extremity indispensable beryllium to abolish this exploitative strategy entirely. We indispensable #DecarcerateNow."

Mamdani besides called to abolish private wellness insurance and aesculapian bills, saying, "This is nary clip to enactment the ideology of capitalism supra helping those who are successful the top need."

In summation to calling for little policing and little incarceration, Mamdani besides tweeted successful 2022 that "we request to ban each guns."  

He has further called for authorities to decriminalize enactment work, licence "safe injection sites" for cause use, re-enfranchise convicts and extremity each practice with ICE.

Following Mamdani’s triumph implicit Cuomo connected Tuesday night, galore are present expressing alarm that his argumentation proposals could travel to fruition if helium is incapable to unseat the sitting Mayor Eric Adams, who is moving for reelection arsenic an independent.

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Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo arrives to attest earlier the Select Subcommittee connected the Coronavirus Pandemic successful the Rayburn House Office Building astatine the U.S. Capitol connected September 10, 2024 successful Washington, DC.  (Kent Nishimura)

In a station connected X, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who is wide rumored to beryllium readying a GOP gubernatorial tally successful New York successful 2026, called Mamdani a "radical, Defund-the-Police, Communist, raging Antisemite." She blamed Mamdani’s emergence connected New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, who she said volition "own this unsafe insanity."

Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., besides chimed in, calling Mamdani a "radical, antisemitic socialist" and predicting that an "exodus volition statesman from New York City arsenic Zohran Mamdani runs it into the ground."

Meanwhile, Mamdani received praise and congratulations from respective big-name, nationalist politicians specified arsenic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., some of whom person endorsed his candidacy.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) seen present astatine a rally connected May 1, 2025, was among progressive Democrats similar Rep. Ilhan Omar and Sen. Bernie Sanders who endorsed Zohran Mamdani's bid for mayor. (Angelina Katsanis/AP Photo)

Cortez said that Mamdani’s "dedication to an affordable, welcoming, and harmless New York City wherever moving families tin person a changeable has inspired radical crossed the city," portion Sanders commended Mamdani, saying, "you took connected the political, economical and media Establishment- and you bushed them."

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is besides known for arguable statements astir Israel and America, congratulated Mamdani arsenic well: "Thank you NYC for not letting the bigots and corrupt billionaires prevail," and "Alhamdulillah," which is Arabic for "praise beryllium to Allah."

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Adams has besides commented connected Mamdani’s win, saying, "What NYC deserves is simply a politician who’s arrogant to tally connected his record—not 1 who ran from his record, oregon 1 who has nary record. We merit a politician who volition support driving down crime, enactment our police, combat antisemitism, and basal up for working-class New Yorkers."

"It’s clip to unite. It’s clip to fight. We person a metropolis to save," said Adams.

Mamdani’s bureau did not respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for remark astatine the clip of publication.

Fox News Digital's Deirdre Heavey contributed to this report.