Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited Moore Street Market in Williamsburg on Monday to urge the roughly 26,500 New Yorkers who lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits this year under new federal work requirements to reapply now that a re-enrollment window has opened, News 12 Bronx reported.

The visit came as the city administration carried out a citywide outreach campaign, launched in October, to reach the people who lost SNAP and help them re-enroll as they become eligible beginning Thursday, October 1. “Food should not be a luxury in New York City,” Mamdani said in the administration’s announcement of the campaign. “This year, our administration used every tool at our disposal to help New Yorkers hold on to the food assistance they rely on, and more than 220,000 people were able to keep their SNAP benefits.”

Approximately 26,500 New York City residents lost SNAP benefits this year under the expanded federal rules, the administration said, a figure that amounts to 1.6 percent of the city’s SNAP households and falls disproportionately on young, single men. “Still, 26,500 New Yorkers lost benefits, most of them young men without children,” Department of Social Services Commissioner Erin Dalton said in the announcement. “On October 1, they become eligible to reapply, and we’re bringing the same smart, targeted approach to get that number as close to zero as we can.”