New York magazine altered a cover photo of the city’s incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani with his top aides to exclude Catherine Almonte Da Costa, a senior appointee who resigned after her antisemitic social media posts resurfaced, The New York Times reported Thursday.

The report came the day Mamdani was sworn in as New York’s first Muslim mayor, ushering in a new age of anti-Zionist leadership that has put many Jews in the city on edge.

On Monday, New York magazine published its new edition with a cover story titled “Now comes the hard part — Introducing Mayor Mamdani and his inner circle.”

The cover image showed Mamdani in an office chair with his aides seated or standing around him, against a white background. Aides posing in the back row covered parts of New York magazine’s title.

In the original photo, which was shot by celebrity portraitist Mark Seliger, Da Costa posed so that her head covered the “w” in the magazine’s title, the Times........

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