很长，不译了。链接列出，并附上一段原文。
题目：How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor
副标题：The 34-year-old assemblyman won the Democratic primary by defying the city’s all-powerful establishment. He secured the mayoralty by delicately disarming it.
作者：By Nicholas Fandos
Nov. 4, 2025
文章链接：How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor - The New York Times
小伙当选，有自己的天赋，有时势，也有偶然运气。
在今年夏天他从民主党的初选中胜出后，他外出非洲结婚，他婚礼时纽约突发枪击案，而他此前曾说过要“De-fund the police”。而当时，才在初选中失败而企图以独立候选人参选的科莫（Cuomo）趁他不在美国而发动了媒体攻势。小伙有可能被“事件出局”。下面一段说的是初选获胜后至此枪击案结局这段事件的故事。
‘Everything is about to change’
Patrick Gaspard, who began advising Mr. Mamdani late in the primary, had spent a lifetime accumulating contacts as a top Democratic organizer. The morning after the primary, so many of them were trying to reach him that he set his phone to do not disturb.
Many messages sounded outright panicked, including from prominent Black New Yorkers who knew little about the candidate. Why do you trust him? He seems shady. He is misleading our children, Mr. Gaspard recalled the messages saying.
Inside the campaign, Mr. Mamdani and his advisers were exhausted. They had planned to plot their next steps while on retreat for a week. They had mere hours to face a new reality.
Look, everything is about to change, Ms. Rahim and Mr. Katz （这两位也是他的顾问） told Mr. Mamdani as they idled in a car outside 30 Rockefeller Plaza after a post-primary television appearance.
He would need to quadruple his staff, delicately reassign longtime aides to less high-profile roles and begin more seriously planning for the possibility that he could be mayor, they said. If he needed any reminder, a police detail now accompanied his every movement.
“The exhausted disbelief was palpable,” Mr. Gaspard said. “You could tell they were having a tough time absorbing they were going to have to do it all over again.”
Some post-primary consolidation came quickly, especially as labor unions and local party leaders embraced his candidacy. But others, including some of the nation’s top Democrats, held back, worried that associating with Mr. Mamdani’s far-left views could tank the party’s chances in next year’s midterms.
Adams （这位是纽约的现任市长）, who sat out the primary, looked to be regaining strength with support from the city’s rattled business class. And though Mr. Cuomo had initially signaled a willingness to bow out, he threw himself back into the race as an independent with a newfound furor after taking a brief retreat in the Hamptons.
“I was not aggressive enough,” he told supporters. “I promise you, I will not make that mistake again.”
Mr. Mamdani also took a post-primary break, traveling to Uganda in late July for a long-planned marriage celebration at a lavish family compound. The campaign was jittery, hiring an outside lawyer as a precaution in case immigration agents hassled him when he returned. Mr. Mamdani went through the airport in a mask and a hat to avoid a public spectacle.
But when a crisis did arrive, it was not the one they expected. Seven thousand miles away, back in New York, a gunman walked into a Midtown office tower and carried out a deadly mass shooting, including killing an off-duty police officer. The attacker had targeted a building that happened to house the offices of Mr. Rudin, the real estate executive, and killed one of his employees.
Aides woke Mr. Mamdani in the night to put out a statement, and he rushed to get on the first flight back to New York City. But by the time he landed two days later, Mr. Cuomo was on television screens across the city all but blaming his opponent, who once called for defunding the police, for the massacre.
It was a disaster. And the unfavorable optics might have changed the course of the whole campaign, but for one twist of fate: The officer killed turned out to be Bangladeshi and, like Mr. Mamdani, a Muslim. The family invited the candidate to join them at home, and he arrived directly from Kennedy Airport.
Afterward, he called a news conference that would be his longest since Primary Day. He chastised Mr. Cuomo for politicizing the moment but also used the platform to stress that his views on policing had evolved from the days when he called the institution “racist” and called for funding cuts.
For the first time in weeks, aides breathed a sigh of relief.
“To me, it was the first moment I felt like he was the mayor of New York,” Mr. Katz said.
后注：三人参加市长选举，小伙的选票过半。不要小瞧纽约人，纽约选民的智慧。
