Zohran Mamdani projected his impending triumph when, the morning before the election, he led a line of marchers over the Brooklyn Bridge behind a banner that read “Our Time Is Now.” The coalition of voters that lifted him to victory, and whose members can now claim it is “our time,” consists of three main categories: an ethnic and religious base, the left-wing Democratic Socialists of America organization, and a powerful, widespread movement of disappointed, disaffected young professionals.

Mamdani, who plans to take his oath of office on a copy of the Quran rather than the Bible, will bring new voices and a new style to City Hall that come from — and will fully include — the city’s 760,0000 Muslims, as well as New York’s South Asian population, centered in neighborhoods with concentrati

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