On the heels of his victory on this yr’s race for Metropolis Corridor, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani introduced Wednesday that his transition workforce can be headed by Maria Torres-Springer, Mayor Adams’ former high aide.
Torres-Springer, who resigned as Adams’ first deputy mayor earlier this yr over issues about his federal corruption indictment, will function the co-chair of Mamdani’s transition along with three different veterans of federal and metropolis governments: former chair of the Federal Commerce Fee Lina Khan, United Means CEO Grace Bonilla and former Deputy Mayor for Well being and Human Providers Melanie Hartzog.
Mamdani, who defeated impartial candidate Andrew Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral election by a ten% margin, made the announcement at a press convention in entrance of the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Wednesday morning. Elana Leopold, an alum of the de Blasio administration, is anticipated to function his transition’s govt director.
“Throughout this campaign, I have worked hard to be accessible and transparent with New Yorkers,” the mayor-elect mentioned. “That same spirit will animate this transition and the City Hall we build because New Yorkers deserve a government that they can trust.”
Mamdani mentioned that he plans to announce over the approaching days extra transition workforce members spanning organizers, Metropolis Corridor veterans and coverage consultants to work on implementing his marketing campaign guarantees of freezing lease for tenants in stabilized residences, implementing citywide free buses and establishing common childcare. The transition workforce can be anticipated to get to work on figuring out and interviewing candidates for high appointments in Mamdani’s administration.
“He and I share an undimmed belief in government’s capacity to deliver for working people, an undimmed belief in public servant’s capacity to not just meet, not even just exceed, but defy expectations,” Torres-Springer mentioned of Mamdani.
Mamdani mentioned he’s planning on hiring members of the Democratic Socialists of America, however didn’t make any particular commitments. At the moment, his management workforce doesn’t embrace members with particular experience in schooling or public security. He has mentioned he would really like NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to remain on, however she has not introduced her plans but.
New York Metropolis mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani arrives for a information convention alongside members of his mayoral transition workforce at Flushing MeadowsCorona Park in Queens on Nov. 5, 2025. (Picture by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP through Getty Photos)
Mamdani is about to be sworn in as mayor on Jan. 1.
“The poetry of campaigning may have come to a close last night at 9, but the beautiful prose of governing has only just begun,” Mamdani mentioned Wednesday, utilizing a quote attributed to the late ex-Gov. Mario Cuomo, the daddy of Andrew Cuomo.
Mamdani mentioned that Adams has not reached out on to him to congratulate him on his victory or invite him to Metropolis Corridor, however that he’s “looking forward” to talking with the outgoing mayor “to make sure that the handover is a seamless one.
For his half, Adams issued a robust message to Mamdani on social media Wednesday morning: “Don’t f**k it up.”
