{"id":11432,"date":"2026-02-03T20:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=11432"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:35:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:35:36","slug":"quick-honeymoon-new-yorkers-already-upset-with-mamdani-go-off-on-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=11432","title":{"rendered":"Quick Honeymoon: New Yorkers Already Upset With Mamdani, Go Off On Him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a city breaks, it rarely starts in its richest zip codes. That\u2019s what makes this moment so damning. If the Upper East Side can\u2019t get its trash picked up or its streets plowed, what does that say about Queens, the Bronx, or Brooklyn, where residents already live at the back of the line? The symbolism is brutal: towering piles of garbage for regular New Yorkers, pristine sidewalks for the mayor\u2019s own block at Gracie Mansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Celebrities who once cheered progressive politics are now publicly asking, \u201cWhat happened?\u201d They\u2019re not attacking from the right; they\u2019re expressing betrayal from inside the tent. Mamdani\u2019s shrug \u2014 \u201cI\u2019m new to the job\u201d \u2014 lands like an insult in a city that expects competence before ideology. New Yorkers can tolerate a lot: noise, crowds, chaos. What they won\u2019t tolerate, for long, is a leader who preaches collectivism while living above the mess he helped cre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a city breaks, it rarely starts in its richest zip codes. That\u2019s what makes this moment so damning. If the Upper East Side can\u2019t get its trash picked up or its streets plowed, what does that say about Queens, the Bronx, or Brooklyn, where residents already live at the back of the line? The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":11433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}