Mamdani: Now, many of you know it’s a city of 8.5 million people. More than 3 million of us were born elsewhere. I’m one of them. We’re a city that’s proud of our immigrant heritage. And when we think about especially what Haitian New Yorkers have had to deal with—not just for weeks or months or years, but frankly for decades—we have seen a cruelty that has become normalized. And to have people who, frankly, taught the world about freedom have their own freedom be put in jeopardy by the actions of a Supreme Court and a federal administration, it is not only cruel, it’s something that we will not ever accept. And so we stand here as New Yorkers proud of standing in solidarity and proud to do everything that we can to keep people in their homes and to keep people together. And we’re proud of that because we know that at the core of what it means to be a New Yorker is also to celebrate the many different places that we all come from, to understand that no matter where we were born, no matter what language we spoke growing up, we belong in the city and the city belongs to us. And especially when you think about the fact, as you can see here on this pin, a team that brought us all together in the Knicks and reminded us of what it means to be a part of this city—the joy, the emotion, the ecstasy that comes with knowing yourself as a New Yorker. And it wasn’t just embracing the people next to you whose names you’ve known for years. It was also jumping into the arms of a stranger, watching the game wherever you were, whether it was a LinkNYC kiosk or at a bar or in a backyard or on a delayed stream, somehow in the trunk of a random New Yorker’s car—you were watching the game. And I think what those weeks also showed us was the magic of the city, and that at the heart of that is each and every New Yorker, no matter how different their stories are, whether they’re Haitian, whether they’re Syrian, whether they’re from wherever it may be in the world. They too are New Yorkers. We’re proud of them, we’re proud of the city.