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When New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani took the stage Tuesday night, he gave a special nod to the City’s immigrant backbone, paying tribute to Yemeni bodega owners, Mexican abuelas, and to the Trinidadian line cooks whom he said played a part in a movement to ‘topple a political dynasty’ carried out in his election.

Mamdani, 34, come January will be sworn in as New York City’s youngest leader in more than a century, as well as its first Muslim and south Asian mayor. He did so against the odds, polling at only 1% at the start of the year, and running against veteran politician and former Mayor Andrew Cuomo.

As he spoke at the end of his election night watch party at Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday, he said, “Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it. Thank you to those so often forgotten by the politics of our city, who made this movement their own. I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.”