Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in on Jan. 1. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Mamdani thanked the pair of politicians for their willingness to participate.
"It is an honor to be sworn in by two leaders I have admired for years: Attorney General Tish James and Senator Bernie Sanders. Attorney General James has taken on powerful interests in her defense of New Yorkers and embodied the principle of equal justice before the law," Mamdani said in a statement.
New York Attorney General Letitia James will formally swear in Mamdani at midnight on Jan. 1. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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The Jan. public inauguration will be a much larger affair than for past mayors, whose inauguration events have traditionally been limited to roughly 4,000 tickets.
Mamdani has instead opted to hold viewing areas and a public block party on Broadway.
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