New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a lottery for $50 World Cup tickets to 1,000 New Yorkers on X Thursday.
“What can $50 get you in New York City?” the mayor asked in the video.
“Twenty-five cups of street cart coffee. Ten months of hard-hitting journalism,” Mamdani wrote. “Infinite rides on the Staten Island Ferry. And for 1,000 lucky New Yorkers? A ticket to the World Cup.”
Mamdani joked that a front page of the New York Post announcing his mayoral win in November is “still a classic.”
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani poses with a World Cup Trophy alongside Ezequiel Cecchi, 49, after making a World Cup soccer tournament announcement at Harlem Tavern, Thursday, May 21, 2026 in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, center, joined by, from left, United States soccer star Tim Weah NYC
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