No sooner was Muslim Socialist Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York than the city payroll dropped from 306,248 employees to 306,247.

That is the number of city workers Mamdani, 34, who has never run anything or had a real job, will oversee when he is sworn into office in January to run a city of eight million people.

Boston by contrast, a city of 672,318 people, has a city work force of some 25,530 employees and a mayor, Michelle Wu, 40, who already has four years as mayor under her belt.

Mamdani is new. He is just a three-term member of the New York Assembly where he did have a staff of a half dozen people and an absentee record of fifty percent.

Now the Democrat Socialist will be mayor of free-market New York City, headquarters and financial capital of the United States with a po

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