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Zohran Mamdani: “DOT workers filled in 100,000 potholes in the first hundred…”

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Published April 15, 2026 | Video Starts at 16:25

We've talked about the pothole blitz. Yes, we have. There's somehow hundreds of thousands of potholes in New York, and you've seemingly eliminated them within the last month. Shout out to the DOT workers filled in 100,000 potholes in the first hundred days. We haven't seen that many potholes filled in that short of a time period in more than a decade. (16:25–16:30)

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