New York’s far-left mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, will be sworn in to office using a Quran at an abandoned subway station.
According to The New York Times, Mamdani will be sworn in at midnight on New Year’s Eve inside a decommissioned subway station beneath City Hall that once served as a turnaround for the No. 5 train.
He said the unconventional setting was chosen for its symbolism, framing the ceremony as the start of what he called “inauguration of a new era.”
“It was a physical monument to a city that dared to be both beautiful and build great things that would transform working peoples’ lives,” Mamdani said in a statement.
“That ambition need not be a memory confined only to our past, nor must it be isolated only to the tunnels beneath city hall: it will be the purpose of the administration fortunate enough to serve New Yorkers from the building above.”
He added that he was “humbled by the opportunity to lead millions of New Yorkers into a new era of opportunity, and honored to carry forward our city’s legacy of greatness.”
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The station opened in 1904 as one of the city’s original 28 subway stops and was taken out of service in 1945 amid system upgrades.
It later received landmark status from New York City in 1979 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is set to administer Mamdani’s initial oath of office, followed by a second ceremony on the steps of City Hall later Wednesday.
That event will include a separate swearing-in by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and conclude with a block party along Broadway.
Mamdani, whose politics blend a bizarre brand of Islamism with far-left socialism, will be sworn in using a Quran passed down from his grandfather.
He will also use a separate Quran once owned by Arturo Schomburg, a noted Black author and historian.
For the larger public ceremony at City Hall, Mamdani will instead take the oath on Qurans that belonged to both his grandfather and grandmother.
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New York, what have you done?pic.twitter.com/E0Z4uQ43Ey
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Following the inauguration, the Quran will go on public view for the first time as part of a special exhibition at the New York Public Library.
The voters of New York City will soon get what they voted for.
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