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Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected as the first digital native to run City Hall, and now New Yorkers have found a new way to report what’s broken in their neighborhoods: filming a short video, tagging Mayor Mamdani, and asking him to come fix it. Sometimes, it works.

WNYC and Gothamist reporter Karen Yi fills in for Janae Pierre and meets Carolina Abreu, whose pitch black Bronx street got streetlights two days after her video racked up nearly 2 million views. Then NYU politics professor Joshua Tucker explains what’s behind the trend and where the limits are when a request goes from fixing a pothole to changing a policy.

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Housing has been a major focus for Mayor Zohran Mamdani since taking office in January. His administration has heard from tenants about poor living conditions, but landlords have complaints of their own, from unpaid rent to rising costs and lengthy eviction proceedings.

WNYC and Gothamist housing reporter David Brand fills in for Janae Pierre and brings those concerns to Cea Weaver, director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants. They discuss how the administration is responding to both tenants and landlords, what it’s doing to keep New Yorkers from being priced out of their neighborhoods, and its plans for public housing and tenant ownership.
Photo: David Brand
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Diwali is the festival of lights, celebrated by millions around the world. But what does the holiday look like in New York City? Anu Sehgal, founder of The Culture Tree, joins us to talk about growing up celebrating Diwali in India, passing traditions down to her children here in the city.

Photo: The Culture Tree

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WNYC and Gothamist reporter Samantha Max joins us to discuss a lawsuit accusing New York City and the NYPD of making it unnecessarily difficult for people to recover belongings taken by police. One plaintiff says officers took bags of Christmas presents for her children and that she never got them back. Another says police left some of his possessions beside a dumpster while other items disappeared. The lawsuit argues the city’s property return process is so confusing that some New Yorkers never recover what belongs to them.

Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

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The NYPD arrested a mom and took her kids' Christmas gifts. She never got them back.





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