When Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor last November, it was declared that he would be the 111th mayor of New York City.
But ... not so fast.
A deep-dive into the municipal archives reveals that -- in the 17th century -- when NYC was a new city and the mayors were appointed by the British government -- a man named Matthias Nicolls in 1674 briefly served as the city's chief executive.
Nicolls had been mayor before, then left office, but it appears that he was reappointed as mayor before departing quickly again. So Mamdani will technically be the 112th mayor.
It appears that there was no nefarious reason for this oversight -- it was simply a slip of the historical record.
Just another example of how the history of NYC is forever fascinating.
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