New Delhi, June 14 -- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani negotiated 1,000 World Cup tickets at $50 each with free roundtrip transportation for working-class New Yorkers. The move came after N.J. Transit initially priced a match-day rail ticket at $150 to get to MetLife Stadium.

The state then committed $6 million for a free watch party for 50,000 New Yorkers on Central Park's Great Lawn, plus fan fests in all five boroughs. The city also launched its most expansive ferry schedule.

The result was tickets climbing to $32,970 on FIFA's own portal - attorneys general are now investigating the alleged inflating prices by design, according to a report in Fortune.

Earlier this week, Mamdani announced an exclusive run of New York City-inspired...