The United Nations General Assembly is back in session, and presidents, prime ministers, and their security details are on their way to Manhattan. Among them, due at the U.N. podium on Sept. 24, is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has called a war criminal and once vowed to have arrested. The New York Police Department will protect him.

The man the NYPD answers to, the mayor of one of the nation’s most targeted cities, cannot read the classified threat picture for that visit. Nearly nine months into his term, Mamdani still has no federal security clearance. City Hall says the process is ongoing and typical. Michael Bloomberg got his in roughly four months; Eric Adams, within five. Bill de Blasio waited just over a year, partly because he applied late.