A slew of black Big Apple residents fumed Friday over mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s claim on an Ivy League college application that he is African American.

Zohran Mamdani’s responses on a 2009 college application were criticized by his mayoral rivals. The blowback was dismissed by his supporters as a politically motivated attack.

The complexities of racial identity and categorization are laid bare in the case of Zohran Mamdani, an Indian-born candidate for New York City mayor who identified as both Asian and African American on his college application,