From Queens Cafes to Brooklyn Streets, NYC Celebrates Historic Victory

MOHAMED FARGHALY

mfarghaly@queensledger.com

The sound came first, a single cheer that turned into a roar. Then came the tears, the chants, the raised flashlights of hundreds of cellphones at a Queens coffee shop where disbelief turned to jubilation. On Election Night, Astoria native and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani had just made history, becoming New York City’s first Muslim mayor.

The 34-year-old democratic socialist defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa in a race that shattered political expectations and drew more than two million voters — the city’s highest turnout in a mayoral race since 1969.

“New Yorkers are hungry for a different kind of politics, a politics that doesn’t req

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