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Mamdani mugs for the cameras — and accidentally reveals the truth about NYC housing

Last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani made two appearances designed to showcase a hands-on leader tackling the city’s housing crisis.

Instead, they revealed a mayor focused on optics — while missing the priorities that matter.

In one social-media video, the mayor shadowed Housing Preservation and Development inspectors at a privately owned apartment building.

Here comes the mayor, on the ground — cameras in tow — to hold landlords accountable.

“There’s a lot of New Yorkers who live with a worry about whether or not the conditions they’re living in are actually up to code,” Mamdani declared.

“It’s the city’s job to deliver them.”

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Behind the mayor, however, viewers saw a clean apartment in a well-kept building, whose landlord was being nitpicked to death in a city suffering the worst housing shortage in its modern history.

Important items, like the lead paint test, came out negative — yet the inspectors issued six violations for trivialities like a flowerpot on the fire escape, a crack in the plaster and a busted window spring balance.

Who would invest in such an environment?

“No issue is too small when it comes to........

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