Guest Essay Oct. 6, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times Listen to this article · 7:27 min Learn more By Jennifer Steinhauer Ms. Steinhauer previously served as City Hall bureau chief for The Times. Some attacks on Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign have focused on his plans to create city-owned grocery stores, make bus rides free, offer baby baskets of diapers to new parents and freeze rent for over two million New Yorkers.