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Mayor Mamdani is failing at his core job: keeping NYC functioning
NY Post ^ | 2 Feb 2026 | Editors

Posted on 02/04/2026 9:59:46 AM PST by Rummyfan

The No. 1 job of a mayor, above everything else, is to keep his or her city functioning.

Yet with people dying on the cold streets of New York and trash building up in parts of the city, New York is by no means functioning. Not even close.

The snow and frigid temps have tested Gotham’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani and, alas, he has not risen to the occasion. Rather, he’s left the city a mess.

Everest-size mountains of garbage have popped up. Unremoved snow, ice and road salt have damaged Con Edison electrical equipment, contributing to power outages.

Most horrifically, 16 people have died on the street — 13 from hypothermia.

Chalk that up to a perverse ideology on the homeless or simple mismanagement, but either way, it represents tragic, unforgivable failure.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: basicservices; disease; garbage; grift; homeless; kathyhochul; mamdani; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc; weather; zohranmamdani
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1 posted on 02/04/2026 9:59:46 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
Ultra-liberal Debra Messing, of all people, was criticizing Mamdani for his abysmal failure to remove snow after the storm. It has to be bad.
2 posted on 02/04/2026 10:01:11 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Rummyfan

This is what happen when people with zero experience are elected. But most of the media will turn a blind eye toward his failures.


3 posted on 02/04/2026 10:02:34 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Rummyfan

That’s not his core job.

As with all communists, the job is to soak the public to enrich those at the top.

Proving a “functioning city” is just the marketing they use to justify the taxation and all the useful idiots fall for it time and time again.


4 posted on 02/04/2026 10:03:29 AM PST by fruser1
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To: Rummyfan

All these problems would disappear if they taxed the rich even more. /s


5 posted on 02/04/2026 10:04:15 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Just sharing a few thoughts on Zohran Mamdani
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/zohran-mamdani-and-the-big-apple


6 posted on 02/04/2026 10:04:16 AM PST by Palmettojones
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Hey Commie Mamdani said he would get rid of the homeless problem and he is, he is killing them off, he can say “See I am true to my word”


7 posted on 02/04/2026 10:05:55 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Messing is very pro Israel so she cant stand Jew hater Mamdani


8 posted on 02/04/2026 10:06:30 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Rummyfan

Elect communists - get Soviet lifestyle.


9 posted on 02/04/2026 10:06:33 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

> Ultra-liberal Debra Messing, of all people, was criticizing Mamdani … <

Wait. What? Messing must be an Islamophobe. And she’s probably a Nazi, too.

Isn’t that the standard “progressive” response to any such criticism?


10 posted on 02/04/2026 10:06:41 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Rummyfan

And just a few weeks into his term.


11 posted on 02/04/2026 10:06:44 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Rummyfan

This turd was never qualified to be a mayor of any city. He has no clue how to do much of anything other than talking about how great he is and how great things will be when he is Hizzoner.

Butt, the RAT party endorsed this fool and the democrat voters put this dork in charge.


12 posted on 02/04/2026 10:08:01 AM PST by dforest
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Gee... Who would have thought an entitled dumabss Ugandan communist with no previous employment or managerial experience would be such an unmititgated disaster at the helm of a major POS city? Hard to fathom what happened... if you’re a dumbass, communist-supporting POS Demonic Party parasite.


13 posted on 02/04/2026 10:09:10 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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"The trash problem in NYC is so bad the rats are now on Ozempic"

hat tip Jimmy Failla

14 posted on 02/04/2026 10:09:14 AM PST by G Larry (Its RACIST to impose slave wages on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by importing cheap ILLEGAL labor)
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It will get much worse. The investment of private capital produces the wealth that makes NYC work. What private investors in their right mind will now commit private capital to build housing or commercial ventures in this quasi socialist, high tax, regulation happy hostile place? When investment evaporates , poverty and political unrest increases.


15 posted on 02/04/2026 10:10:56 AM PST by allendale
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Hizzoner is about to learn a hard lesson in NYC union labor, the garbage men, until workers, road crews, PD and FD can make or break your administration fast


16 posted on 02/04/2026 10:11:34 AM PST by databoss
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To: Starboard

Repeat, ZERO experience.


17 posted on 02/04/2026 10:12:53 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness)
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To: G Larry

From what I hear, it’s not just the rats and garbage on the streets of NYC, supposedly Mamdani closed a lot of the homeless shelters in NYC and put them on the streets right before a blizzard which resulted in quite a few dead homeless people who froze to death.

What a great city, the financial capital of the world, littered with rats, garbage and frozen corpses.


18 posted on 02/04/2026 10:12:57 AM PST by srmanuel ( )
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To: fruser1

“ That’s not his core job.

As with all communists, the job is to soak the public to enrich those at the top.

Proving a “functioning city” is just the marketing they use to justify the taxation and all the useful idiots fall for it time and time again.”

Correct. The people he works for are fine with this.


19 posted on 02/04/2026 10:13:05 AM PST by stanne
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To: Rummyfan

He was elected by constituencies that don’t see New York City functioning as his core job. Plundering New York City is their core issue. Giving free reign to their hatreds comes second, especially if it’s anti-Jewish hatred.


20 posted on 02/04/2026 10:13:11 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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