Generally speaking, most newly elected officials get a few months to iron out the kinks.

Mamdani, however, made a lot of promises and some big changes as soon as he hit the ground.

Now, homeless people are dead, trash is piling up, and anti-Semitism is front and center, so the honeymoon phase is over.

It stinks

Sanitation workers do not have the same credo as the USPS, and that is not good news for New Yorkers right now.

With massive storms hitting the area, there has been limited trash collection around the city.

Now, many parts of the city look like dumps, as there are literally huge mounds of garbage piling up and no sign of trash collection happening anytime soon. Residents are fuming over the fumes (forgive me, but I could not resist).

While residents are literally embarrassed about the condition of the city, Mamdani’s Department of Sanitation is asking for patience, stating, “We are prioritizing trash and composting (the stuff that gets gross), but New Yorkers can follow their regular schedule. We are running hundreds of collection trucks each day in addition to ongoing snow operations. We just ask for patience as we catch up.”

He was warned

Just before taking office, Mamdani was warned about installing bollards as a measure of protection against anti-Semitic threats, but the administration did not heed the warnings.

Moshe Davis, executive director of the Mayor’s Office for Combating Antisemitism, gave the recommendation, saying that houses of worship were vulnerable to attack.

Had he done that, Dan Sohail would not have been able to ram his car into the front of the Hasidic Jewish group’s Eastern Parkway building in Crown Heights five times while members were in the midst of a holy celebration.

The report stated, “The 2026 expansion proposes establishing a dedicated city budget line for bollard installation and other hardening measures at vulnerable institutions. This mirrors previous successful iterations of such funding before resources were exhausted.”

Homeless deaths

The final nail in the coffin for Mamdani was the death of the homeless after he told city workers not to bust up encampments to move them to shelters.

Former NYC mayor and Trump ally, Rudy Giuliani, was quick to fire off an attack against the current mayor, stating, “The policy of NYC before, during, and after I was Mayor was to remove homeless from the streets when it approached freezing. The incumbent Mayor has changed that policy.”

As was noted in a recent op-ed by Michael Goodwin in the New York Post, the honeymoon is officially over. Trash and bodies are piling up, and the one group Mamdani cannot afford to be attacked was within a month of him taking office.

There is no victory lap to be taken here, as I take no joy in seeing a major US city collapse at record speed, even if it is filled with liberals. New Yorkers are learning a very hard lesson, but sadly, that lesson will continue for another 47 months.