The chat was one of several that Mamdani has had in recent weeks with city business leaders, part of a charm offensive to win ...

The phone call reflects a broader effort by Manhattan’s financial elite to figure out how to work with the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist.

In Dublin last month, Jamie Dimon offered his typically blunt take on the man likely to be the next mayor of New York City: Zohran Mamdani is “more of a Marxist than a socialist.” ...