Mamdani marks 100 days with city grocery stores, trash containerization and faster buses
Mamdani's most significant early achievement has been securing $1.2 billion in state assistance to expand free preschool in New York City
NEW YORK, United States (MNTV) – Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked his first 100 days in office with a rally at Queens’ Knockdown Center, where he announced plans for city-owned grocery stores, accelerated trash containerization and faster buses, while celebrating his early achievements alongside Senator Bernie Sanders before crowds of enthusiastic supporters.
“With what we’ve accomplished in 14 weeks, imagine what we can do together in four years,” Mamdani told the crowd, which erupted when Sanders walked out as a surprise guest. “What you are doing is providing hope and inspiration, not only to people all across our country, but honestly all across the world,” Sanders told supporters.
“What you guys are doing here is telling the world that we can have a government that works for all of us, not just the oligarchs.”
On substance, Mamdani’s most significant early achievement has been securing $1.2 billion in state assistance to expand free preschool in New York City. His broader agenda has faced obstacles including a more moderate governor running for re-election, a more moderate City Council speaker and a significant budget gap.
The bulk of his achievements have been in areas where he can act unilaterally — restarting stalled bus-lane projects, filling potholes, targeting bad landlords and employers, and building a rest stop for delivery workers near City Hall.
Sunday’s three new policy announcements reflected his campaign themes. He said the city would open a publicly owned grocery store in Harlem at the historic La Marqueta market — opened by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in 1936 — and one in each borough by the end of his first term. “At our stores, eggs will be cheaper, bread will be cheaper, grocery shopping will no longer be an unsolvable equation,” he said.
He also pledged full citywide residential trash containerization by 2031 — “sidewalks will be clean, rats will go hungry, trash won’t know what hit it” — and vowed to speed up buses by up to 20% across 45 corridors by the end of his term. His promise to make buses free, however, remains on hold given costs and opposition from the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Mamdani framed his early record as a form of “pothole politics” — a 2026 answer to the sewer socialism of early 20th-century socialist mayors who delivered visible, practical improvements to cities including Milwaukee.
“Where the government is not too busy, not too self-important, not too mired in paperwork to fix the problems of this city, no matter their size,” he said.
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