New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in, not inside City Hall on New Year's Day, but dozens of feet below it.
The incoming Democratic mayor will be sworn in at the Old City Hall subway station during a private midnight ceremony, according to a Dec. 29 news release. New York Attorney General Letitia James will administer the oath of office, and the underground ceremony will be attended by Mamdani's family.
In a statement, Mamdani said the station is a "physical monument" to the city and called its subway system a lifeblood of New York.
“When I take my oath from the station at the dawn of the New Year, I will do so humbled by the opportunity to lead millions of New Yorkers into a new era of opportunity, and honored to carry forward our city’s legacy of greatness," Mamdani said in the news release.
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