It looks like the honeymoon is over in New York City as residents unload on Mayor Zohran Mamdani over piles of garbage and unplowed snow.
While the socialist mayor declared things couldn’t be better, New Yorkers are vocally ripping him over the neglected streets and deplorable conditions, especially in the wake of a winter storm.
Meanwhile in NYC… pic.twitter.com/m71xiX7XZr
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) February 1, 2026
“I’m new to the job. I know the burdens will get heavier, but right now I struggle to imagine how it could be better,” Mamdani reportedly said in a speech, according to the New York Post.
But his optimistic outlook as the city faces a $12 billion budget deficit and 14 people have died from the icy temperatures in the Big Apple earned Mamdani a truckload of backlash.
Actor Michael Rapaport and actress Debra Messing did not support Mamdani’s mayoral race and reacted on social media to the state of the city after Winter Storm Fern.
“The streets are a disaster. It hasn’t snowed in 5 days and the streets still haven’t been cleared,” Messing posted, noting that in her 15 years living in NYC, “this has never happened.”
Sitting in a taxi trying to get to an appointment. Should take 20 minutes, we are at an hour and ten minutes and counting. The streets are a disaster. It hasn’t snowed in 5 days and the streets still haven’t been cleared. Poor ambulance sitting in aessentially a parking lot with… pic.twitter.com/1FzbguGkeL
— Debra Messing (@_debramessing) January 31, 2026
Rapaport was not so polite in his post, unloading in a profanity-filled video as he documented the dirty snowbanks and piles of garbage.
WARNING: Graphic language
A week after the snowstorm and this is what we got Zoron the Shoveler!
Filthy black snow, garbage soup, ice rinks on every corner, cars buried like fossils.
People slipping, breaking ankles, nobody shoveling, nobody salting, nobody doing SH*T.
This is New York City.
Three minutes… pic.twitter.com/IC8zFwKey3— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) February 1, 2026
Other videos documented the “buyer’s remorse” over Mamdani’s election.
“We voted for you, Zohran. We advocated for you, Zohran. We advocated for you,” protesters shouted outside the mayor’s residence at Gracie Mansion. “You lied, Zohran. Shame, Zohran!”
🚨 BREAKING: New Yorkers are developing buyer’s remorse for Zohran Mamdani, spotted HECKLING him and yelling “SHAME!” after basically nothing is going according to plan
“We advocated for you, we voted for you! You get up in here and lie to us!” 😂😂pic.twitter.com/qCKLhXx96T
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 1, 2026
Meanwhile, the area around Mamdani’s East 88th Street home was “squeaky clean,” according to the New York Post.
“I couldn’t believe it when I saw yesterday — a whole army of sanitation workers plowing and shoveling every bit of snow off of that side of the street,” local resident Nick Rivers told the paper.
“Clean as a whistle for the mayor,” he said. “Look at this side.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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