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Mayor Zohran Mamdani · Democratic · in office since Jan. 1, 2026
The Executive Summary
Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has led New York since Jan. 2026; New York is not yet scored — a mayor's record opens only after enough years in office for the lagged data to say anything fair; the card below says exactly where each metric stands.
| Unemployment 5.2% (2025) | Too early |
| Median household income $81,228 (2024 · constant 2024 $) | Too early |
| Poverty rate 18% (2024) | Too early |
| Government form | Strong mayor |
Zohran Mamdani has not been in office long enough to be scored — attribution opens two years in, the same rule applied to governors.
Sources: unemployment — BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics · median household income — Census ACS 1-year, CPI-U deflated · poverty rate — Census ACS 1-year (B17001). Unemployment runs through 2025; income and poverty through 2024. The 2025 unemployment point is an eleven-month average — October 2025 was never collected during the federal shutdown — and it is included and flagged here under the same rule the state pages apply to the same statistic (one statistic, one rulebook, as of v2.6; through v2.5 city pages excluded it instead, and the changelog says so).
Scored on economic outcomes only — unemployment, real median income and poverty. Crime, housing and health are not yet included, so this is a narrower measure than a governor’s. Government form follows standard reference classifications and was not verified city by city. Methodology
Public safety, monthly — the city’s own record
Hate/bias-crime incidents reported by the NYPD via NYC Open Data (dataset bqiq-cu78), counted by the city’s own published bias motives and compared same months only — January–June of each year, because the record currently runs through June 2026. Counts are small and reporting-sensitive; they are shown in both directions, never scored, and never part of Mamdani’s grade or any other. This module exists for every city whose government publishes a qualifying official feed — no feed, no module, no inferred number.
| Bias motive | Jan–Jun 2023 | Jan–Jun 2024 | Jan–Jun 2025 | Jan–Jun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All bias motives | 337 | 384 | 320 | 346 |
| Anti-Jewish | 125 | 216 | 181 | 185 |
| Anti-Male Homosexual (Gay) | 53 | 47 | 16 | 32 |
| Anti-Black | 31 | 17 | 27 | 26 |
| Anti-Muslim | 11 | 17 | 14 | 21 |
| Anti-Other Religion | 0 | 0 | 7 | 19 |
| Anti-Catholic | 8 | 9 | 6 | 14 |
| Anti-Asian | 34 | 18 | 13 | 10 |
| Anti-Hispanic | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 |
| Anti-Transgender | 14 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| Anti-Female | 0 | 11 | 0 | 7 |
| Anti-Other Ethnicity | 13 | 20 | 18 | 5 |
| All other motives | 26 | 15 | 25 | 10 |
Source: NYPD via NYC Open Data (dataset bqiq-cu78), data through June 2026. 2 records recorded after that month (a partial current month, or mis-dated rows) are excluded from the series — an exclusion counted here rather than made silently. An incident count is a report to the police, not a conviction, and a change in counts can reflect reporting as well as incidence — the city’s own caveats apply.
New York sits in NY, whose governor Kathy Hochul holds a scored statewide record (No. 3 of 29). State outcomes are not the mayor’s grade — a city is not a state — but they’re the nearest verified context today.