Overview
- The mayor-elect will take a private oath just after midnight Jan. 1 at the Old City Hall subway station with Attorney General Letitia James, then be publicly sworn in at 1 p.m. at City Hall by Sen. Bernie Sanders after opening remarks from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with a Broadway block party and an inaugural poem by Cornelius Eady.
- His transition blends progressive picks and holdovers, retaining Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and naming Dean Fuleihan first deputy mayor, Julie Su deputy mayor for economic justice, Sam Levine consumer and worker protection commissioner, and Lillian Bonsignore fire commissioner.
- After Elon Musk criticized the FDNY choice, Mamdani defended Bonsignore’s three decades in EMS, noting that EMS handles most FDNY calls.
- Mamdani’s affordability platform—rent freezes for rent-stabilized tenants, universal childcare, free buses and city-supported supermarkets—requires new funding and cooperation from Albany, with Rent Guidelines Board dynamics possibly delaying a freeze due to late-term Adams appointees.
- Business leaders warn of economic risks from proposed tax hikes, with incoming Partnership for New York City CEO Steven Fulop calling a corporate tax increase “absolute suicide,” and the Anti-Defamation League announcing a monitor of the new administration; separately, the New York Post reports he is expected to name Steven Banks as corporation counsel and Helen Arteaga deputy mayor for health and human services.