Speedrun 1975!

Can’t believe it’s only been a month! There is so much more to accomplish:

The No. 1 job of a mayor, above everything else, is to keep his or her city functioning.

Yet with people dying on the cold streets of New York and trash building up in parts of the city, New York is by no means functioning. Not even close.

The snow and frigid temps have tested Gotham’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani and, alas, he has not risen to the occasion. Rather, he’s left the city a mess.

Everest-size mountains of garbage have popped up. Unremoved snow, ice and road salt have damaged Con Edison electrical equipment, contributing to power outages.

Most horrifically, 16 people have died on the street — 13 from hypothermia.

Chalk that up to a perverse ideology on the homeless or simple mismanagement, but either way, it represents tragic, unforgivable failure.

Sorry, did that say 16? it’s actually 17 now:

“Today is the 13th day of this relentless cold,” Mamdani said. “As of this morning, 17 New Yorkers have passed away outside during this cold.”

There is nearly two months left in the winter season. In 2023, the latest year for which data are available, 29 New Yorkers died from the cold.

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Mamdani has faced criticism for saying city workers would only force people indoors “as a last resort” during the cold spell. He has stressed that none of the dead were found in homeless encampments — which his administration has refused to clear.

Not to worry though because some essential services have been restored:

Employees of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Department of Health have created a “working group” that accuses Israel of committing genocide, The Post has learned.

The “Global Oppression and Public Health Working Group” held its first meeting Tuesday afternoon — the middle of the workday — with members gathering at the department’s headquarters in Long Island City, as well as remotely.

“We really developed in response to the ongoing genocide in Palestine,” one presenter said near the beginning of the meeting, according to video obtained by The Post.

“And the working group aims to address the growing interests among the health department staff to learn about current and ongoing global oppression in its many forms and how it influences the advancement of health equity,” the presenter said.