New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani spent Veterans Day on Tuesday serving veterans in the Bronx a warm meal. It's only fitting, he later told reporters, for a future mayor whose focus is on the city's least fortunate residents.

Mamdani has previously been dodgy about which parades he would participate in across the city dating back to one of the mayoral debates.

Veterans Day falls on Tuesday, Nov. 11, this year, as the nation pauses to honor its country’s heroes. Veterans Day is a federal holiday, which means various daily-open offices and activities are closed (those that have still been operating amid the shutdown,