Jubilation at Zohran Mamdani's Election Night Party: 'The Future Is in Our Hands'

By Michael Calderone

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — The crowd erupted inside the Brooklyn Paramount music venue a little after 9:30 p.m on Tuesday night as the New York City mayoral race was called for Zohran Mamdani, capping an electrifying run by a 34-year-old state assemblyman who emerged out of nowhere to lead the nation’s biggest city. 

When Mamdani later took the stage, the applause was thunderous. “The future is in our hands,” he declared. “My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. New York, tonight, you have delivered a mandate for change, a mandate for a new kind of politics, a mandate for a city we can afford and a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that.”