New Mayor, Old System: How Mamdani’s Transition is Confronting NYC’s Byzantine Civil Service
New Mayor, Old System: How Mamdani’s Transition is Confronting NYC’s Byzantine Civil Service – Zohran Mamdani’s progressive mandate for an efficient, equitable government faces its first major hurdle in the city’s century-old civil service system, forcing a reckoning with the ‘Rule of Three’ and the power of public sector unions.