Zohran Mamdani: “Buses would cost about $700 million a year to make free.”

“Whereas tenants know that I'm the person who's going to put nearly $7 billion back into their pockets, into our local economy. And, and Buses would cost about $700 million a year to make free. Now, this is something that the city would pay in part, but the state would be a large partner in this.” (07:16–07:21)

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