Imagine you're a teenager today and this is your mayor, and this is the standard you keep when you start voting and your touchstone for how you participate civically.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Why so serious? Today I surprised a group of young New Yorkers working at the CityArts Bronx mural project for the summer. Their task? Giving the Bronx's famous Joker Stairs a new chapter as the Shakespeare steps.