Andrew Cuomo says he’ll ask the present NYPD commissioner, Jessica Tisch, to remain on the job if he’s elected mayor Nov. 4.
The assertion, made within the remaining weeks of the marketing campaign, comes as front-runner and Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani is reportedly contemplating choosing from a secure of veteran officers to steer the NYPD. He’s additionally publicly mentioned he’s contemplating holding Tisch, and has praised her for “decisive action to uproot corruption at the upper echelons at the NYPD and her presiding over lower levels of crime across this city.”
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Zohran Mamdani arrives on the mayoral debate in Manhattan on Thursday. (Barry Williams/ New York Each day Information)
Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa has additionally mentioned he’d preserve Tisch on as police commissioner.
Tisch, who was named police commissioner in November 2024, comes from the deep-pocketed Tisch household, which based the Loews movie show chain. The household’s members have collectively donated a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars} to the pro-Cuomo Repair the Metropolis PAC since June, Board of Elections knowledge present.
She spent 12 years working as a civilian throughout the NYPD, starting as a counterterrorism analyst, earlier than shifting up the ranks to turn into the division’s deputy commissioner for data expertise.
After her stint within the NYPD, former Mayor Invoice de Blasio named her commissioner of town’s Division of Info Know-how and Telecommunications in 2019.
When Adams grew to become mayor, he named Tisch sanitation commissioner earlier than giving her the highest cop position final yr after scandal and federal investigations engulfed the NYPD’s highest ranks, resulting in the resignations of former Commissioner Edward Caban and his interim substitute, Thomas Donlon.
Initially Printed: October 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM EDT
