"I have a dream", proclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. all those years ago. The 34-year-old Democratic socialist Zohran Kwame Mamdani, elected the new mayor of New York, also has a dream. This is what infuses his arrival as the first Muslim and South Asian to lead the largest and richest city in America with so much excitement and hope.

It might bear noting that the population of New York City exceeds that of several US states. Its GDP of $1.8 trillion is about 40% the size of India's. In fact, if it were a country, the Big Apple's GDP would rank about 16th in the world.

Such is the city that Mamdani addressed in his victory speech in Brooklyn, while promising that "We'll fight for you because we are you. The future is in our hands."

A few miles from the green gaze of the Statue of Lib

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