New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday said that President Donald Trump was “interested in the idea of working together” on the New York City housing project he pitched to him when they met at the White House on Thursday.
The project, Mamdani said, is aimed at constructing 12,000 new homes in the Queens neighborhood of Sunnyside. After the White House meeting, Mamdani characterized his conversation with the president as productive.
“I left New York City. I traveled down to Washington, D.C., to meet with President Trump in the Oval Office,” Mandani said at a press conference in New York on Friday. “I proposed working together to build more than 12,000 new homes in our city, which would be the single largest housing development New York City has seen since 1973.”