Scroll down to sign the petition asking Governor Kathy Hochul to open an investigation and commence removal proceedings against Mayor Zohran Mamdani under Section 9 of the New York City Charter.

On Thursday, July 23, 2026, two men were stabbed four minutes and two blocks apart on the Upper West Side. Chok Sung, 57, was stabbed in the back near West 84th Street. Moshe Grunhaus, 50, was stabbed in the torso as he walked home from his synagogue on West 86th, two hundred feet from the doors. One of them is Asian. One of them is Jewish. Both are New Yorkers, and neither was protected from a man yelling, “Allahu Akbar.”

Mayor Mamdani has been made acutely aware of the public safety concerns of the Jewish community, including those about his own rhetoric. He has failed to act, failed to lower the temperature, and failed to adequately govern New Yorkers. Accordingly, we ask the Governor to commence removal proceedings for his malfeasance in office.

The record below is not a record about one community. It is a record about an administration that has used the powers the office gives it to walk away from the duties the office does not let it refuse. Schoolchildren. Children in the custody of the City. Employees who reported misconduct inside a public-safety agency. Anyone who needs the criminal law enforced the same way for them as for everyone else. Jewish New Yorkers are where the failure showed first. They will not be where it stops.

Mamdani’s Record Since Taking Office

1.  School safety. He vetoed Intro 175-B, which would have required the Police Commissioner to plan for obstruction, injury, and intimidation at school facilities while expressly protecting speech and assembly. He offered nothing in its place. Ninety days later, to the day, there was still no plan.

2.  Children in the City's care. Serious questions remain as to whether the Mayor or his appointees directed the Administration for Children's Services to relax removals, screening, and cooperation with investigations, and whether caseworkers warned them that protective thresholds were slipping. The Governor can obtain the records that answer it. We are asking her to.

3.  Retaliation inside a public-safety agency. An employee of the Department of Probation says she was fired after reporting an undisclosed relationship involving the Commissioner the Mayor appointed and the agency's General Counsel. The Department of Investigation became involved. The question for the Governor is when City Hall knew, and what it did.

4.  Equal protection of the law. He revoked the City's antisemitism framework on his first day in office and replaced it with nothing. Three months later, his own Police Commissioner reported hate crimes up nearly 12% citywide, with 55% of them targeting Jews, who are about a tenth of the City's population. A mayor may defend the right to protest. He may not let that become a reason to under-enforce the law for one community.

5.  The office as a personal platform. He used the official channels of the City of New York to declare a foreign head of government a war criminal and unwelcome here, in a video seen more than ninety million times, then conceded he had no power to do anything about it. When New Yorkers told him what the conduct of his office was costing them, he defended himself and offered them nothing they could hold.

The New York Constitution allows the removal of a public officer for misconduct in office. The Public Officers Law gives the Governor the means. The City Charter says the Mayor of New York may be removed by the Governor upon charges, after notice and a hearing in his own defense.

Sign below. We will deliver the letter, and every name on it, to the Executive Chamber in Albany. We are asking the Governor to open an investigation, serve charges, take evidence, give Zohran Mamdani the fair hearing the Charter guarantees him, and decide.

Governor, you condemned the attacks within hours. You were right to. We are asking you for the thing that comes after a condemnation.