{"id":357891,"date":"2025-11-05T17:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/357891\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:17:14","slug":"jewish-fdny-fire-commissioner-hands-in-resignation-morning-after-anti-israel-zohran-mamdani-elected-nyc-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/357891\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish FDNY fire commissioner hands in resignation \u2014 morning after anti-Israel Zohran Mamdani elected NYC mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City\u2019s Jewish fire commissioner Robert Tucker handed in his resignation first thing Wednesday \u2014 just one day after anti-Israel Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was elected, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

Tucker, a Jewish philanthropist and businessman, will step down from the role he has held for just over 12 months on Dec. 19, sources said.<\/p>\n

He will go back to running the private security firm, T&M, which he headed before joining Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 administration, the sources added.<\/p>\n

Follow The Post\u2019s live updates of Zohran Mamdani\u2019s election as NYC mayor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Tucker, a Jewish philanthropist and businessman, will step down from the role he has held for just over 12 months on Dec. 19. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the latest on NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani<\/p>\n

News of Tucker\u2019s resignation came just as the FDNY boss was set to fly to Israel later Wednesday to meet with a fire commissioner in the Jewish state.<\/p>\n

Tucker\u2019s reasons for tendering his resignation were not immediately clear. The Post has reached out to the commissioner for comment.<\/p>\n

The FDNY\u2019s 35th commissioner stepped in to lead the department in August 2024, replacing Laura Kavanagh, who had a tumultuous tenure at the helm.<\/p>\n

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani was elected New York City\u2019s next mayor on Nov. 4, 2025. AP<\/p>\n

Adams lauded Tucker at the time of his appointment.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommissioner Tucker brings decades of experience in protecting public safety to this role, as well as strong personal ties to the FDNY,\u201d he said in a statement last year.<\/p>\n

Tucker, 55, founded T&M in 1999. Before that, he worked as a special assistant for the Queens District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Robert Tucker, a Jewish philanthropist and businessman, will step down from the role. Tamara Beckwith<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also been involved in various charitable endeavors, including serving as secretary of the FDNY Foundation, and has received honors from the New York Board of Rabbis and Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City.<\/p>\n

His Jewish faith was clear when his father held a copy of the Tanach \u2013 the Hebrew bible \u2013 for his swearing in,\u00a0according to the Jewish News Syndicate.<\/a>\u00a0It was the same bible that was reportedly used for his bar mitzvah.<\/p>\n

City Hall did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s Jewish fire commissioner Robert Tucker handed in his resignation first thing Wednesday \u2014 just one…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":357892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6525,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,58381,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-357891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fdny","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","18":"tag-resignations","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115498230946814141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357891","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=357891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}