NEW YORK (WABC) — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed more than 400 people to 17 transition committees that will help with his transition to City Hall.
The committees cover housing, transportation, community safety, economic development, government operations, immigrant justice and technology — among others.
Mamdani is also adding committees on worker justice and community organizing, which have not been part of previous mayoral transitions.
The transition team brings together homeless outreach workers and real estate developers, union leaders and community organizers. Mamdani says he’s determined to get views from across the political and economic spectrum.
“New Yorkers have placed a great deal of hope and expectation in this new course that they’ve elected us to chart,” Mamdani said. “It is a hope that City Hall can deliver results that make material, tangible changes in the lives of working people across these five boroughs.”
Less than a month after winning City Hall, Mamdani’s transition team has fielded more than 70,000 resumes.
The series of committees will now advise the team on potential City Hall appointments as well as ongoing issues and policies to address them.
Aside from housing, transportation and other traditional fields, the team is adding Worker Justice and Community Organizing.
Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance heads the worker justice committee.
“In a city with tourism, service and hospitality industries worth billions, the working class-which is largely people of color and immigrants-do the work that allows rest and leisure. That labor, that dedication to excellence for our city, should be treated with respect,” Desai said.
Monday’s announcement comes just days after Mamdani’s much-talked about visit to the White House to meet with President Donald Trump.
Trump and Mamdani appeared cordial and shook hands in a news conference after their roughly 25-minute closed-door talk on Friday. Both said they agreed on a lot.
Their friendly news conference differed from the months of trading insults and harsh rhetoric with Trump threatening to withhold federal funding for New York if Mamdani was elected and to send federal agents there to fight crime and Mamdani criticizing ICE’s expanded raids and the administration’s surge in deportations.
On Sunday, Mamdani said the meeting was “a productive one” in which he and Trump focused on affordability and public safety. Mamdani wouldn’t outright say that Trump committed to not sending troops into New York City, but on Saturday, Trump said “other places need it more” when asked if he would.
Mamdani said he made it clear to the president that “what we wanted to do was to deliver public safety and affordability, and the NYPD would be the ones to do so.”
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