US, July 18 -- From $50 tickets and free watch parties to safer streets and stronger small businesses, the Mamdani administration made the world's game accessible to working people - and left behind improvements that will outlast the final whistle

New York: With seven World Cup matches down and the Final still to come, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani today reflected on a tournament that welcomed more than 1 million visitors to the New York-New Jersey region while proving something larger: the world's biggest sporting event can belong to working people.

"We said from the beginning that the World Cup belongs to New Yorkers. This summer, we proved it," said Mayor Mamdani. "In the most international city on earth, you didn't need thousands of d...