It’s hard to avoid comparisons between Zohran Mamdani and Daniel Lurie these days. Two unlikely mayors, taking over troubled cities. There are the contrast stories.
There are the stories that say they aren’t that different.
But as we get close to the one-and-two-year anniversaries of the elections that put them in office, it’s worth looking at some basic facts. They show that Mamdani and Lurie have operated at the opposite ends of the political spectrum.
Mandani is using local government to make the city safer and more affordable. Lurie is allowing Big Tech to take over local government, celebrating a boom that has caused rents to soar and evictions to rise to alarming levels…