{"id":441505,"date":"2025-12-12T03:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441505\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T03:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:13:27","slug":"mayor-adams-may-skip-inauguration-of-nyc-mayor-elect-zohran-mamdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441505\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Adams may skip inauguration of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Adams said Thursday he is unsure whether he\u2019ll attend Zohran Mamdani\u2019s inauguration<\/a> on New Year\u2019s Day, saying he\u2019s hesitant to do so because the mayor-elect\u2019s \u201cnasty\u201d supporters might use the opportunity to make a scene.<\/p>\n

To skip out on the swearing-in would be a break in tradition, with outgoing mayors typically attending the formal ceremony ushering in a new administration.<\/p>\n

Adams told NY1<\/a> in an interview Thursday that he possibly would skip it because Mamdani\u2019s supporters might be too raucous, slamming them as \u201cmean,\u201d \u201cnasty\u201d and \u201cdisrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still deciding,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to communicate with the incoming mayor because I don\u2019t want to be disruptive of the ceremony. It\u2019s his day. Some people are perpetual protesters, some people will turn this ceremony into some form of protest. So I want to speak with him to determine if I\u2019m going to attend or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event is expected to be held at City Hall on the afternoon of Jan. 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo comment,\u201d Dora Pekec, a spokeswoman for Mamdani, said.<\/p>\n

Outgoing mayors have often attended the swearing-in of their successors, even amid frosty relationships and campaign trail tensions. When Mayor Bill de Blasio was sworn in in 2014, Mayor Michael Bloomberg sat through speaker after speaker\u2019s admonishment of his mayoralty<\/a>. When Mayor Adams was inaugurated in Times Square<\/a> in 2022, de Blasio was in attendance, dancing with his wife onstage.<\/p>\n

One notable exception to the tradition happened in 1998, when former Mayors Ed Koch and David Dinkins skipped Mayor Rudy Giuliani\u2019s inauguration for a second term.<\/p>\n

Adams mounted an independent bid for reelection earlier this year but dropped out of the race<\/a> in September after pressure to do so in order to clear a path for ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The mayor has been highly critical of Mamdani both before and after his victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to participate,\u201d Adams said of the possibly of becoming a spectacle at the inauguration. \u201cThat\u2019s a special day for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Adams said Thursday he is unsure whether he\u2019ll attend Zohran Mamdani\u2019s inauguration on New Year\u2019s Day, saying…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":441506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,8988,1370,405,403,8989,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-441505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-election","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-politics","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115704417842913845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}