President Donald Trump and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani held a joint press conference at Gracie Mansion on Monday, the first time a sitting president has visited the mayor’s residence in decades. They discussed Sunnyside Yards, a proposal to deck over a Queens rail yard for 12,000 homes and 30,000 jobs requiring more than $21 billion in federal grants. Despite policy disagreements, the two Queens natives exchanged warm words, with Trump telling the young mayor he had « potential » to be a great one. The president did not commit to federal funding but acknowledged the site’s merit.
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