NYC Mayor Mamdani (D) Makes Small Business Announcement C-SPAN. Small businesses in New York City face mounting pressure and limited safeguards against soaring rents. And now newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani has said that he is ready to protect them. A non-profit organisation based in New York City, representing several small supermarkets, grocery stores and bodegas, is suing the city and its mayor, Zohran Mamdani, to stop his planned opening.