Mayoral miscount results in limited edition coffee mug marking Mamdani era

A miscount that resulted in Mayor Zohran Mamdani being sworn in as New York City’s 112th mayor has resulted in a limited edition souvenir that is now under lock and key.

For a brief time last year, the city-run gift shop called CityStore sold a coffee mug erroneously describing Mamdani as the 111th mayor.

“Maybe a week or two we had them on sale,” said Dan Kastanis, a spokesperson for the Department of City Administrative Services, which runs the store at 1 Centre St. “Once the mayor decided that he was going to honor the new historical facts that had come to light, we decided that we would honor that as well by putting the 112 mugs on sale.”…

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