Torres-Springer is at the moment the president of development and improvement on the MTA, a job he has served in since 2021 and through which he’s tasked with overseeing the Transportation Authority’s sprawling capital funds.
Torres-Springer’s spouse is Maria Torres-Springer, one among Mamdani’s three transition staff co-chairs.
Requested Wednesday if Maria Torres-Springer has had any hand in advancing her husband as a deputy mayor candidate, Mamdani spokeswoman Monica Klein solely mentioned: “When we have personnel announcements to make, we will announce them.”
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks at a press convention on Nov. 10, 2025. (Barry Williams / New York Every day Information)
Maria Torres-Springer was Eric Adams’ first deputy mayor till she resigned in early 2025 over issues in regards to the outgoing mayor’s federal corruption indictment. At the moment the president of the Charles H. Revson Basis, Maria Torres-Springer isn’t anticipated to hitch Mamdani’s administration after he’s sworn in on Jan. 1.
However together with his spouse co-leading the transition, Jamie Torres-Springer’s appointment might make for dangerous optics, one supply near the Mamdani staff argued. Nonetheless, that supply and a number of other others near the Mamdani transition argued Jamie Torres-Springer is extremely certified for the deputy mayor gig and mentioned he would, on the deserves, be a stable appointment.
Maria Torres-Springer didn’t instantly return a request for remark. Neither did her husband nor MTA reps.
In line with sources acquainted with the matter, Mamdani’s staff has additionally been eyeing Veronica Vanterpool and Midori Valdivia, each of whom additionally hail from the general public transit world, for the deputy mayor for operations job.
Valdivia, the MTA’s former chief of workers, is at the moment a member of the Transportation Authority’s board, appointed by Adams, assigned to deal with New York Metropolis’s bus methods in addition to the LIRR and Metro-North, amongst a couple of different focuses. At the moment a transit development lead at improvement agency AECOM, Vanterpool was once a deputy administrator on the Federal Transit Administration below President Biden and was earlier than that an MTA board member as effectively.
The Mamdani staff’s obvious deal with choosing somebody with public transit expertise for the Metropolis Corridor operations put up is notable.
Whereas the operations perch comes with oversight of quite a lot of non-transit companies, the town Division of Transportation is anticipated to be particularly essential for Mamdani, who made it a central promise of his marketing campaign to make the town’s public buses quick and free. The state-run MTA runs the buses themselves, however the DOT oversees the town’s roadways and improvement of busway networks, which Mamdani has pledged to as mayor increase.
With lower than a month to go till he’s sworn in, Mamdani has to this point solely formally appointed three high members of his administration: Dean Fuleihan as first deputy mayor, Elle Bisgaard-Church as Metropolis Corridor chief of workers and Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner.
With Evan Simko-Bednarski
