March Madness is over, spring is here, and Morrisania, a neighborhood in the Bronx, is getting a resurfaced basketball court. The Lower East Side in Manhattan is getting a water fountain repaired, Sunset Park in Brooklyn is getting dispensers for dog poop bags, playground fencing in Morris Park in the Bronx is being fixed, a handball wall is being painted in East Harlem, Staten Island tennis courts are getting windscreens, and the illegal dumping in Soundview in the Bronx is being cleaned up.

It’s all part of “Municipal Madness,” which the mayor announced in a video called “The Fix Is In,” costarring WNBA star Natasha Cloud, set on a basketball court with a broken hoop. It was a competition — but not one in the Hunger Games style — of the city’s annual participatory budgeting, in which neighbors devise elaborate marketing campaigns to see who will get a new swing on their playground.

Mamdani’s plan is for all sixteen of these problems, nominated by New Yorkers, to be fixed. Over 21,000 people voted on which of these tasks Mayor Mamdani would perform himself on his one hundredth day as a democratic socialist mayor of America’s largest city. The winner: cleaning up illegal dumping in Soundview.