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Making New York City work will never be Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s priority; his approach to governing is all about his image and promoting his radical allies. <\/p>\n

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Witness the plans for a metasticizing Office of Mass Engagement, set to grow to $5.2 million in salaries as its headcount balloons 186%, with 26 new hires drawing an average of $125,000.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the mayor\u2019s (also ample) press office, nor agency-directed community engagement: It\u2019s political organizing; its first task is recruiting people to show up at Rent Guidelines Board hearings to produce a show of mass support for Mamdani\u2019s rent freeze. <\/p>\n

Another part, of course, is the support for far-lefty challengers to progressive Democrats like Reps. Adriano Espaillat and Dan Goldman.<\/p>\n

(Since Speaker Carl Heastie ran point for Mamdani\u2019s priorities during budget negotiations, the mayor\u2019s not backing primary challenges against Heastie\u2019s Assembly incumbents this year, though the Democratic Socialists are certainly looking to pick up strength in the Legislature.)<\/p>\n

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The mayor\u2019s also salting city government with radicals, from a new NYPD-bashing sheriff to refusing to renominate even de Blasio-appointed judges his team deems insufficiently activist.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s only real nod to keeping city government working is his retention of Jessica Tisch as police commissioner, though it remains a question how long that can last when he keeps ordering dangerous forbearance of deadly threats.<\/p>\n

Beware: Even if the NYPD remains solid, the rest of city government is headed off the rails as long as City Hall is focused exclusively on winning more power for the mayor\u2019s movement. <\/p>\n

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