“I Think That Protest Is a Healthy Part of Any Democracy,” Says Mamdani

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The night before Election Day, Zohran Mamdani — who was elected New York City’s 111th mayor on Tuesday — hopped on the W train from 34th Street-Herald Square to Queens for an event with canvassers at Dutch Kills Playground.

We took the ride with him, and this is what we saw: Some gasped when they saw who it was, with one man grabbing a selfie on the platform with the then-candidate before the train arrived.

“Good luck tomorrow!” a woman shouted as she walked up the subway steps. “Oh my God!” a group of Bronx High School of Science students screamed when they saw him get in their subway car. A decade and a half ago, he was a student there, too.

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