Overview
- Council members voted 51-0 to elect Menin, who represents the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island, to lead the 51-member body.
- Menin named her senior team, tapping Miguelina Camilo as chief of staff, Simone A. Jones as deputy chief of staff and the Council’s first chief equity officer, and Bhav Tibrewal as chief advisor.
- She must decide within 30 days which of the 19 bills vetoed by former Mayor Eric Adams to bring up for override votes, signaling early legislative priorities.
- After Menin raised concerns over rescinded Adams-era orders, Mayor Mamdani re-established the Office to Combat Antisemitism and directed an NYPD review of worship-site security; Menin is pursuing legislation to create protest buffer zones around houses of worship and schools.
- Positioning herself as a pragmatic moderate, Menin outlined an affordability agenda including a Council-driven housing plan using public libraries and underutilized city assets, procurement reform, lower health costs, and support for universal childcare ahead of tough budget talks.