{"id":334138,"date":"2025-10-26T15:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334138\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T15:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:47:11","slug":"nyc-mayor-adams-transportation-head-ydanis-rodriguez-endorsing-zohran-mamdani-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334138\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Adams\u2019 Transportation head Ydanis Rodriguez endorsing Zohran Mamdani: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

City Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, a longtime political ally to Mayor Adams, is expected to endorse Democratic front-runner<\/a> Zohran Mamdani in the race for City Hall<\/a> on Sunday, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez and a spokeswoman for Mamdani did not immediately return requests for comment. But two sources with direct knowledge said Rodriguez is expected to deliver the endorsement during a rally in Washington Heights with Mamdani that will also be attended by New York Congressman Adriano Espaillat, who\u2019s backing the Democratic mayoral nominee, <\/a>too.<\/p>\n

The endorsement \u2014 which comes on the heels of early voting that started Saturday \u2014 is significant for multiple reasons.<\/p>\n

Only a few top-ranking advisers to Adams have come out with endorsements in the 2025 mayoral race since he abandoned his own reelection bid last month.<\/p>\n

Essentially all those advisers, such as First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro and Adams confidant Frank Carone, have thrown their weight behind Mamdani\u2019s main opponent, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez, in endorsing Mamdani, offers the Democratic nominee a credible inroad with the city\u2019s large Hispanic communities.<\/p>\n

A former City Council member, Rodriguez was seen as instrumental in helping line up Latino support, especially from uptown Manhattan neighborhoods, for Adams\u2019 successful 2021 run for mayor.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez\u2019s nod also comes after Mamdani in a recent interview with The News wouldn\u2019t rule out keeping Rodriguez as his Department of Transportation commissioner if elected. During his tenure as DOT head, Rodriguez\u2019s agency has at times clashed with Adams\u2019 City Hall over the need to expand the city\u2019s networks of bike and bus lanes.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Adams, who ended his reelection effort<\/a> last month as he polled dead last in the race, declined to comment Sunday on Rodriguez\u2019s expected announcement. Adams appointed Rodriguez as his DOT commissioner on the same day he took office in January 2022, and Rodriguez has served in that role ever since.<\/p>\n

Mamdani continues to poll as the clear favorite to win the Nov. 4 election, which also includes Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, a longtime political ally to Mayor Adams, is expected to endorse Democratic front-runner…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5714,5229,5297,13239,28215,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,165512,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,26319,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-334138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-adams","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-andrew-cuomo","11":"tag-city-hall","12":"tag-democratic-nominee","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-transportation-commissioner","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-ydanis-rodriguez","27":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115441254279190126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}