Revealed: Why NYC's new mayor will be sworn-in in abandoned subway station

Democratic New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration on Thursday will feature luminaries of the left, including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who will gather to swear in the democratic socialist in a location befitting a candidate who ran on a transit-forward platform.

Mamdani will be officially sworn by Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James during a private ceremony attended by members of his family in the abandoned—but well-preserved—Old City Hall subway station...