With outgoing Mayor Eric Adams persevering with to dodge the query of whether or not he’ll attend Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration this week, the one former mayor confirmed to be within the crowd is Invoice de Blasio.
De Blasio, a progressive Democrat, was a surrogate for Mamdani’s mayoral marketing campaign and has been an off-the-cuff adviser to him, making his look at Thursday’s inauguration anticipated.
Former Mayor Invoice de Blasio speaks with Zohran Mamdani supporters on the mayor-elect’s celebration celebration Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (Barry Williams/ New York Day by day Information)
Adams — a conservative Democrat who was harshly vital of Mamdani in the course of the 2025 marketing campaign — has declined for weeks to say whether or not he’ll attend, elevating the specter that he’ll break with the custom of outgoing mayors attending the inaugurations of their successors.
Throughout an unrelated press convention Monday, Adams as soon as once more declined to say if he’ll be on the inaugural ceremony on the steps of Metropolis Corridor, telling reporters he first desires to talk to Mamdani to verify he doesn’t “disrupt his day.”
“That’s a very important, historical day, and it’s unfortunate that there’s a body of some of his supporters, some of them, who rather protest everything,” Adams mentioned in a dig on the democratic socialist mayor-elect’s voters.
“If he’s cool, I’m cool,” Adams added.
Mayor Eric Adams is pictured at Metropolis Corridor on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (Ed Reed / Mayoral Images Workplace)
However Mamdani has already mentioned he’s cool with Adams’ attendance. Requested for a response to Adams’ Monday feedback, a Mamdani rep referred to remarks the mayor-elect made final week during which he mentioned his predecessor is “still welcome to my inauguration.”
Reps for Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani, the one different residing ex-New York Metropolis mayors, didn’t return requests for touch upon whether or not they are going to be at Mamdani’s inauguration.
Giuliani, a Republican who’s near President Trump, has known as Mamdani a “communist — right out of Karl Marx.” Bloomberg donated hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to anti-Mamdani tremendous PACs that sought to spice up the mayor-elect’s chief rival within the Nov. 4 election, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
After dropping his personal reelection bid in September amid fallout from his dismissed corruption indictment, Adams additionally endorsed Cuomo and sought to painting Mamdani because the “king of gentrifiers.”
Since Mamdani’s election win, Adams has been reluctant to share specifics about what’s subsequent for him professionally. At Monday’s press convention, Adams repeated he desires to journey, write a e book and go “back to school,” but in addition mentioned he hopes to work on one thing associated to cryptocurrencies.
“A combination of back to school, doing my book, using technology like cryptocurrency to improve the lives of our children and go after hate in a real way, specifically antisemitism,” he mentioned at Metropolis Corridor earlier than declining to elaborate.
Mayor Eric Adams is sworn in because the one hundred and tenth mayor of the town of New York on Jan. 1, 2022 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Arturo Holmes/Getty Photographs)
In the meantime, planning was underway outdoors Metropolis Corridor for Mamdani’s inauguration ceremony, with a stage being erected on the steps.
Throughout Thursday afternoon’s ceremony, Mamdani can be sworn in by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a fellow democratic socialist, earlier than hundreds of supporters anticipated in Metropolis Corridor Plaza. Hundreds extra supporters are anticipated to cram the streets round Metropolis Corridor for what Mamdani’s transition group has known as a “block party” that anybody can present as much as totally free by submitting an RSVP kind on his web site.
Additionally Monday, Mamdani’s transition group introduced he’ll, earlier than his official inauguration, take the oath of workplace at midnight on New 12 months’s Eve contained in the deserted subway station beneath Metropolis Corridor.
The subterranean ceremony can be a extra quiet affair, with Mamdani’s group saying it’s solely anticipated to characteristic the mayor-elect, his household and State Lawyer Normal Letitia James, who will administer the oath.
In an announcement, Mamdani mentioned he picked the situation as a result of the station, first opened in 1904 and shuttered in 1945, “was a physical monument to a city that dared to be both beautiful and build great things that would transform working peoples’ lives.”
