Suit-Clad NYC Mayor Splashes Into Pool to Open Summer
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani dressed in a full suit and socks and leaped into the East Harlem Thomas Jefferson Pool to kick off the city’s summer pool season, violating the rule that male swimmers wear bathing suits. The stunt revived a long-standing opening-day tradition he pledged to resume, following encouragement from reporters, even as past mayors Bloomberg, de Blasio and Adams either participated previously or declined; Mamdani described it as keeping a quirky promise amid the city’s summer splash.
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