It's the Ryan Laira show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Last night, our senior political reporter, Bridget Bergen, hosted a really interesting event in our theater of the

green space. Maybe some of you were there. Maybe some of you watched it. It was an interview and

audience Q&A with Mayor Mamdani built around the history of perhaps the most famous and universally

respected past mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia, who served from 1934 to 1945.

You know, he was revered enough to have both an airport and a Broadway play named after him.

Anybody ever see or listen to the original cast album or anything from Fiorello?

Both Mamdani and Cuomo said during the campaign that they

would want to be like him. So the event was part history, part newsmaker interview with the mayor,

part Q&A with students and faculty from community colleges in all five boroughs. That was most of the

audience. Bridget will join me in a minute

after these two clips. First is this clip that they used of Mayor LaGuardia,

extolling the virtues of and waxing optimistic about the city of New York.

This great city, unique in its kind, nothing like it in the whole world.

This great city of huge spaces that are too small, of millions of little people who are really

big, of people coming from every climbing country of of millions of little people who are really big.

There are people coming from every climbing country of the world, living in peace and happiness here.

And now here's this from Mayor Mamdani's victory speech.

This was on election night, where he mentions Mayor LaGuardia by name.

This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will

achieve rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt.

Central to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost of living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiora LaGuardia.

Yeah, since the days of Fiorella LaGuardia.

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