Mamdani Caught In Big Lie About Little Italy — His Excuse Makes It Worse

to a podium and blamed Eric Adams. The original map, he claimed, came from the prior administration. His team just “added a few additional neighborhoods.” Not their fault. Move along.

It was a lie. A documented, verifiable, immediately disprovable lie.

The Adams-era Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs never produced anything resembling the map in question. What they created were detailed, hand-illustrated neighborhood profiles for 27 immigrant communities — complete with local landmarks, churches, markets, and resident histories