So how’s life in New York City nearly a month into the reign of Zohran Mamdani, the self-styled socialist savior?
Not great.
The honeymoon is already over, and the backlash has begun. New Yorkers are angry — and not the usual critics. Even residents of the Upper East Side, a neighborhood not exactly known for patience-thin outrage, are furious over unplowed snow, overflowing garbage, and basic city services breaking down.
That’s a flashing warning light. If the Upper East Side can’t get snow cleared or trash picked up, imagine what’s happening in the outer boroughs and working-class neighborhoods that never get priority to begin with. When dysfunction hits the city’s most politically connected areas, it’s safe to assume everyone else is being ignored.
The mess has gotten so obvious that even Michael Rapaport couldn’t stay quiet:
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
Yikes!
Actress Debra Messing expressed her frustration with the situation in a post on X, stating that this was the first time she had encountered something like this during her time in New York. She added, “I wonder what 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
That last comment seemed like a jab at Mamdani. Neither she nor Rapaport backed him.
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According to the NY Post, in some areas on the Upper East Side, garbage stacked up to eight feet high. It’s important for people to realize that the UES is one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city. Interestingly, the area surrounding Mamdani’s mayoral residence at Gracie Mansion was notably clear of debris:
Blocks away, the sidewalks outside the lefty mayor’s digs on East 88th Street are squeaky clean.
“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 Nick Rivers griped to The Post on Sunday as he walked his black Lab along a littered sidewalk near the mayor’s residence.
But across the street, not so much. “Clean as a whistle for the mayor,” Rivers said. “Look at this side.” The Post noted that his side the snow was about six feet, while some other areas were eight.
Meanwhile, Mamdani’s take was completely clueless. “I’m new to the job,” the mayor said Friday. “I know the burdens will get heavier, but right now I struggle to imagine how it could be better.”
I doubt that many would share your viewpoint.
It seems that the community isn’t really embracing the benefits of collectivism these days.
