Zohran Mamdani has added a Division of Buildings commissioner to his incoming administration.
The mayor-elect introduced on Wednesday the appointment of Ahmed Tigani, Mayor Eric Adams’ performing commissioner of the Division of Housing Preservation and Improvement, as the top of the company.
The announcement comes hours earlier than Mamdani is ready to take over as New York Metropolis’s 112th mayor. The 34-year-old former Meeting member shall be sworn in at midnight throughout a ceremony held in an out-of-service subway station below Metropolis Corridor.
Tigani took over HPD in March, after stints as the primary deputy commissioner and chief range officer of the division. His promotion got here after Adams tapped the previous commissioner, Adolfo Carrión, to step in because the deputy mayor of housing, financial growth and workforce after Maria Torres-Springer resigned from the submit amid the fallout from the Division of Justice’s corruption costs in opposition to Adams.
Earlier than becoming a member of HPD, Tigani served because the deputy commissioner of the Workplace of Neighborhood Methods and the chief of workers to the Division of Buildings commissioner below former Mayor Invoice De Blasio.
In a press launch, Mamdani’s staff described Tigani’s appointment as demonstrating the administration’s “concentrate on skilled public servants with a confirmed observe file of translating progressive imaginative and prescient into operational outcomes.”
Tigani in an announcement described his imaginative and prescient for the company as “clear, environment friendly, and targeted on serving New Yorkers.” His appointment was introduced alongside two others, together with Louise Yeung as chief local weather officer and Emmy Liss as govt director of the Workplace of Baby Care.
Final week, Mamdani appointed Leila Bozorg because the deputy mayor of housing and planning. Bozorg beforehand served within the Adams administration as the manager director of housing, a place he created two years in the past. She was additionally a member of Adams’ Constitution Revision Fee, the group liable for the 4 housing-related poll measures that New Yorkers voted on final month.
Within the press launch, Bozorg, who labored with Tigani below the Adams administration, solid the incoming commissioner as a “confirmed chief who has tackled the toughest housing issues head-on.”
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