Zohran Mamdani has risen like a comet in New York City politics, emerging as the Democratic nominee and front-runner for mayor on the strength of his easygoing charisma and focus on the city’s affordability crisis.

If elected, Mamdani would become New York City’s first Muslim and first Indian-American mayor. Here's everything to know about the mayoral candidate.

Zohran Mamdani is leading the NYC mayoral race with plans centered on affordability.Mamdani plans to make childcare and buses free, freeze rent, and pilot city-owned grocery stores.Early voting is seeing a high level of turnout across all five NYC boroughs.

Mamdani has gained national attention over his progressive policies, earning support from the likes of Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders.

Cuomo and others have criticized Mamdani for appearing with Hasan Piker, who made 2019 comments that "America deserved 9/11." Mamdani has previously disavowed the comments.

Growing up in the shadow of 9/11, I have known what it means to live with an undercurrent of suspicion,” Zohran Mamdani said.

He does, after all, represent a number of concepts that are in regular rotation in venues such as Fox News and Republican Party social media feeds: He’s a Democratic socialist, he’s young, he’s non-white,

New York City's Democratic nominee for Mayor Zohran Mamdani joins “The Beat with Ari Melber” for a wide-ranging interview on New York politics, Trump, Democratic Socialism, and 50 Cent.

Zohran Mamdani’s artist wife Rama Duwaji helped design the Democratic socialist's logos -- but has been noticeably absent from his entire mayoral campaign.