Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday would not divulge if he plans to keep the position of deputy mayor for public safety in his City Hall.
on Tuesday would not divulge if he plans to keep the position of deputy mayor for public safety in his City Hall. Mamdani , following a Nov. 11 Veterans’ Day event in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, sidestepped a reporter’s question as to whether he would continue to have a deputy mayor for public safety — a position instituted by outgoing Mayor Eric Adams at the beginning of his term.
“We continue to have those conversations internally on the question of not only personnel, but also the positions within city government,” Mamdani told a throng of reporters on Tuesday afternoon.on when he will meet with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who he has said he wants to retain, about staying in her position when he takes over on Jan. 1. “I continue to be confident in my decision to retain police Commissioner Tisch and I look forward to the conversations that we will have,” the mayor-elect said. He also declined to indicate if there are other candidates on his police commissioner short list, should Tisch decide that she does not want to stay past the year’s end.— government veteran Dean Fuleihan as first deputy mayor and long-time aide Elle Bisgard-Church as chief of staff. Fuleihan, Bisgard-Church, and Mamdani’s transition team, theMamdani was also mum on who he will tap to lead his Department of Community Safety — a new proposed city agency that he hopes will assume some of the NYPD’s current responsibilities. He indicated that his newest appointees would be instrumental in helping to find the agency’s first boss. “So we will continue to make all deliberations on an assessment of excellence, not on the question of who was appointed by whom, but rather on the work they’re doing,” Mamdani said. “I’m excited to start to put together our city government with First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan and my Chief of Staff Elle Bisgard-Church.”y, oversees the city agencies including the Fire Department, Department of Correction, and New York City Emergency Management, among others. However, they do not supervise the NYPD, according to the Daughtry is the third figure in Adams’ administration to hold the position, after his first two deputy mayors for public safety — Phil Banks and Chauncey Parker — resigned.after federal agents raided his home and seized his electronic devices as part of a corruption probe. While he was not officially in charge of the NYPD, some reports during Banks’ tenureresigned earlier this year in protestEthan Stark-Miller is amNewYork’s Senior Politics Reporter. He has been covering city and state politics for amNY/PoliticsNY since early 2022. His reporting mostly focuses on New York City Hall, including both the mayor and the City Council. Four former NYPD chiefs say they were forced out after exposing misconduct tied to Mayor Adams’ allies: lawsuitsChauncey Parker named new public safety deputy mayor amid ongoing City Hall turmoilSee it! New Yorkers salute 250 years of US military service during Veterans Day Parade on 5th Avenuecritical after early morning dispute, police sayBronx brute tells senior he’s ‘gonna break your face,’ then punches her inside store in random attack: cops
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