Zohran Mamdani Misses Funeral for Nine Homeless New Yorkers Who Died in Freezing Cold

Mayor Zohran Mamdani was absent Monday from the funeral for nine homeless New Yorkers who froze to death during last winter’s deep freeze—an early and defining test of his tenure at City Hall.

Mamdani, whose response to the city’s homeless population drew intense criticism during the brutal cold snap, did not attend the service at St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue honoring the unclaimed remains.

“Now we know little of these nine neighbors, but we do know this—they are beloved,” the Rev. Mark Schultz said during the service.

“We speak the truth of their dignity,” Schultz added.

Monday’s service, held for nine of the 18 homeless people found dead outdoors last winter, was organized by a small group of concerned New Yorkers.

Rhonda Roland Shearer, a nonprofit founder who helped arrange the funeral, said she hoped it would “make everybody alert to prevent this again.”

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The organizers intervened to keep the remains from being buried on Hart Island, the city’s potter’s field off the Bronx coast, allowing the victims to receive a formal farewell.

Mamdani was notably absent from the All Souls Day Mass, despite calls last winter for the city to move homeless people indoors during dangerously cold conditions.

Although the mayor urged New Yorkers living outdoors to “come inside,” he continued to maintain that involuntary removals from the cold should be used only as a “last resort.”

Critics also condemned the administration’s troubled rollout of mobile warming centers, saying the sites were hard to locate and frequently failed to appear where they were expected.

“He knows this is coming and more deaths are coming unless he changes his approach,” Manhattan Institute analyst Nicole Gelinas told The Post at the time.

The mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.