Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in just moments after midnight on New Year’s Day below City Hall Park in an abandoned subway stop, his transition team announced Monday.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, a vocal supporter of the young socialist lawmaker, will deliver the oath of office at the Old City Hall subway station in a small, private ceremony.
“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,” said Mamdani.
The Democratic Socialist said he selected that location because it highlighted the city’s history of ambitious goals, with the station being part of the first subway line in 1904.
James said Monday she was honored to be part of the underground ceremony.
“Our subways connect us all, and they represent exactly what our next mayor is fighting for: a city every New Yorker can thrive in,” she wrote on social media.
The station, adorned with Guastavino tiles and sporting stunning chandeliers, still serves as an active turnaround for the downtown 6 line since being decommissioned in 1945, but is inaccessible to New Yorkers unless they nab an elusive ticket for a tour, operated by the New York Transit Museum.
Mamdani will follow up on his scaled-down initial ceremony with a block party in Lower Manhattan around City Hall Park that officials have planned for more than 40,000 people to attend.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a longtime fellow member of the DSA, will deliver the oath of office on Thursday afternoon outside City Hall during Mamdani’s public inauguration.
The transition has been planning the bash for Mamdani’s team and their comrades for weeks now, The Post first reported.
The party comes with plans to shut down streets south of Canal Street on Broadway, also known as the Canyon of Heroes, which is typically used for ticker-tape parades.
Mamdani’s team has touted the party as a “man of the people” display, attracting thousands to Lower Manhattan on New Year’s Day.
Temperatures are expected to dip below freezing on Thursday, according to the latest weather report.
