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New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is reaching into the dustbin of history, and not just for his Marxist ideology. Jeffery Mays reports for the New York Times: As hundreds of thousands of people amass in Times Square for the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop, a much smaller gathering of historical importance will begin underground at a long-abandoned subway station. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will be sworn into office at the old City Hall subway station, its tiled arches, chandeliers and vaulted ceilings emblematic of a Gilded Age civic ambition that Mr. Mamdani is seeking to honor in spirit… The City Hall station, which opened in 1904, was closed down on New Year’s Day in 1945 because its curved platform did not line up with the doors of newer trains, leaving dangerous gaps. Mr. Mays credits this scoop on the mayor-elect’s plans to a website called NYC Streetsblog,
where Dave Colon reports: Mamdani said he views the station as a symbol for the aims of his upcoming administration, including the transformative politics that built the subway in the first place.
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