{"id":567270,"date":"2026-02-05T04:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/567270\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T04:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:33:12","slug":"take-off-the-cosplay-coat-and-get-the-city-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/567270\/","title":{"rendered":"Take off the cosplay coat and get the city WORKING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uh-oh: Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/04\/opinion\/mayor-mamdani-is-colonizing-new-york-city-government\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> seems to think the job is more about content-creation than making city government work for everyday New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>The millennial mayor\u2019s mishandling of Winter Storm Fern\u2019s aftermath continues \u2014 first 16 deaths in the cold, then trash mountains stinking up whole neighborhoods and now major road- and foot-traffic troubles as snow piles, turned to ice, snarl traffic and leave seniors unable to safely leave the house.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mamdani sticks to his endless cycle of press conferences to highlight various \u201csmall ball\u201d initiatives. <\/p>\n<p>Perfect for his future TikToks, not so great for New Yorkers\u2019 daily life now. <\/p>\n<p>Another bad vanity move: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/03\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani-ripped-for-customized-carhartt-jacket-as-winter-storm-death-toll-climbs-to-16\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finding the perfect outfit<\/a> \u2014 a custom Carhartt jacket \u2014 to wear on-camera ahead of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Better if he\u2019d worn a Sanitation Department parka and put his time and energy into post-disaster planning, not fashion. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>Skip wowing the (fawning) press corps with your hands-on approach to rewriting City Hall press releases, too. <\/p>\n<p>It was fine to boast and sloganeer at your Inauguration, sir, but then you need to live up to promises like  \u201cNo problem too big. No task too small.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Shoveling snow yourself was a cute enough stunt (even if you did it wrong!), but getting the big stuff is vital. <\/p>\n<p>Quit cultivating \u201cinfluencers\u201d and start showing some governing chops. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And if you must pontificate, be ready to answer basic questions: Asked how his proposed Department of Community Safety would\u2019ve handled the schizophrenic knife-wielding Queens man <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/04\/us-news\/heart-pounding-bodycam-footage-shows-moment-nypd-cop-shoots-knife-wielding-man\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who lunged at cops before being shot<\/a>, Mamdani descended into word-salad then retreated into urging against his prosecution, as if anyone wants the mentally ill sent to prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five days into his tenure, it\u2019s time for the mayor to put childish things away and concentrate on service delivery, not daydreams of socialist transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Leave the cosplay and content-creation to the Gen Zers and Gen Alphas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grow up and do the job the voters elected you to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uh-oh: Mayor Zohran Mamdani seems to think the job is more about content-creation than making city government work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":567271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13239,5416,4691,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,71178,345,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,177393,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-567270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-hall","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-opinion","19":"tag-snow","20":"tag-social-media","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-winter-storm","28":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116016159782112827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567270","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=567270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}