New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration ceremony underway at city hall – live

Mamdani was sworn into office by Letitia James shortly after midnight in the abandoned city hall subway stationNew York is a place that “a young immigrant democrat socialist Muslim can be bold enough to run and brave enough to win,” he says, “not by abandoning conviction, but by standing firmly within it.”Imam Khalid Latif, executive director of the Islamic Center of New York City, delivers the invocation, surrounded by a group of faith leaders from around the city. Continue reading...