‘Zohran Mamdani represents the future New York’: socialist riding high in bid to be mayor

The progressive democrat from Queens is the son of a famous film-maker and poised to take on front-runner Andrew CuomoCan a 33-year-old cricket-playing socialist, who wants to freeze rent, make city transport free and once aspired to be a rapper win an already turbulent election to become the next mayor of New York?Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assembly ­member in Queens, has been the surprise package in the Democratic primary and is now poised to take on the frontrunner i