Across the ideological distance that once made them adversaries, President Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will sit down together Monday at Gracie Mansion — a meeting that asks us to consider how governance sometimes quietly outpaces the rhetoric that surrounds it. Their third known encounter, this time on the mayor's home ground, continues a working relationship that began despite Trump's campaign-era threats to have Mamdani arrested and deported. What draws two figures of such opposing philosophies into repeated private conversation is, perhaps, the stubborn weight of a city's n