Supporters of Mayor Mamdani point to inherited challenges: an overstretched sanitation department and a city system already strained to the limit. But critics aren’t buying excuses.
In New York, competence isn’t optional — it’s survival. When ambulances stall and streets stay buried for days, leadership is measured in action, not promises.
As the city digs itself out, questions loom over a rookie administration under fire, a public losing patience, and a winter storm that exposed every crack. New Yorkers are left asking the hard question: when the snow melts and the crisis is measured in human cost, who’s actually in charge?
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