Mamdani was widely expected to win, but that didn’t lessen the impact of what Washington Correspondent Keith Duggan called his “fairytale in New York” on Tuesday. Photograph by: Vincent Alban/The New York Times
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It was not the most important story in the world – or perhaps even in America – this week, but the election of 34-year-old Democrat Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York captured attention far and wide.
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