Mamdani’s New York City flirts with chaos

A brutal cold snap has gripped New York City and much of the East Coast, freezing streets, sidewalks – and, it seems, any remaining sense of civic restraint.

In Washington Square Park, a group of adults began hurling snowballs and other objects at responding officers from the New York City Police Department. This was not playful roughhousing in a winter storm. Video shows grown men and women – some masked, some standing brazenly in the open, all apparently confident that consequences would be minimal ...