MAMDANI ‘FERVOR’ ON BROADWAY
Carl Glassman at the Tribeca Trib spent the day with the Mamdani faithful in the cold on January 1 (so you didn’t have to!) and got some great shots. It *was* the best attended inauguration ever. Mamdani was sworn in at midnight in the old City Hall station by state Attorney General Tish James and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders swore him in during the public inauguration on Thursday. (That’s a shot above from Tribecan Alvin Eng and below from H.)

DAN GOLDMAN WILL RUN AGAIN FOR CONGRESS
District 10 US Rep. Dan Goldman kicked off his reelection campaign in Chinatown this week. He was elected in 2022. The primary is June 23.

DISCUSSING LARGE-SCALE DEVELOPMENT
The Community First Development Coalition will host a live discussion on Thursday, February 5, at 2p titled “From Watching to Waking Up: What We All Need to Know.” Hamilton Fish, editor and publisher of The Washington Spectator and president of The Public Concern Foundation, will interview CFDC President Stephanie Kelemen, a lawyer at Quinn Emanuel, to explore how large-scale development impacts affordability and diversity; who benefits from the lack of transparency around new developments; how NYC’s land use politics are quietly steered behind the scenes; why our public spaces demand a higher level of accountability; and what a future with community-informed development would look like. Register here.

CHANGES AT THE BROOKFIELD MALL
A. reports that the Club Monaco at Brookfield –- women’s –- on the bottom floor, has gone out of business, but it looks like Madewell for men is coming into the space.