What Happens Now?

Presented by Vital CIty & NYU Wagner

November
12
8:30am - 10:00am EST
General Public
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Date:
November 12, 2025
Time:
8:30am - 10:00am
Location:
Main Event Space, Rm. 101, 105 East 17th Street
Audience:
General Public

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old assemblyman, brings big ambitions to City Hall, even as management challenges abound, finances are strained and a hostile federal administration looms large. This discussion brings together leading voices to ask: What comes next? What are the lessons of history? When and how does the fiscal rubber meet the road? What does the electorate seem to want most? How should the next mayor negotiate with — or resist — President Trump? And more.

Moderator
Errol Louis, political anchor, Spectrum News NY1

Panelists
Polly Trottenberg, Dean of the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History at Columbia University and author of "Fear City"
Martha Stark, Former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance
Michael Lange, writer and political analyst
Jeffrey Toobin, lawyer and author of "True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump"

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