{"id":420186,"date":"2025-12-02T19:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/420186\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:45:13","slug":"tears-and-disappointment-over-mamdanis-request-for-adams-city-hall-staff-to-resign-ahead-of-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/420186\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears and disappointment over Mamdani\u2019s request for Adams\u2019 City Hall staff to resign ahead of inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"

As New York City prepares for a mayoral transition, members of outgoing Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 administration<\/a> expressed disappointment over how Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s team<\/a> has handled the upcoming departure of nearly 180 City Hall staffers.<\/p>\n

Last Tuesday, the Mamdani transition team notified deputy mayors that they would be sending lists of 179 employees who would not have jobs in the new administration. Later that day, each deputy mayor received the names of staff members who were to be told they were \u201cterminated effective Jan. 1,\u201d according to a senior Adams administration official who spoke to amNewYork.<\/p>\n

The staff affected include young assistants and career civil servants across City Hall offices, including communications, intergovernmental affairs, and the offices of the deputy mayors. Supervisors, not the incoming team, were instructed to deliver the news, the official said. Many employees had already submitted applications and r\u00e9sum\u00e9s through Mamdani\u2019s transition portal at the city\u2019s urging, but the official claimed none of those materials were reviewed.<\/p>\n

The Mamdani transition team did not respond to amNewYork\u2019s requests for comment, but told the New York Times the move was \u201cstandard practice\u201d for a mayoral transition as they work to build their City Hall plan, \u201cwhich includes new staff in key roles to ensure they can deliver effectively on their agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mayor-elect also defended the move having spoken to reporters over the weekend, saying the transition team is looking to \u201cbuild a city government that can fulfil the agenda of affordability.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy message to each and every New Yorker is that we will make our assessments on the basis of the work that is done, not on the basis of who appoints people, and that is an assessment that we will apply to the entirety of city government,\u201d Mamdani said, Pix11 reported.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Staffers cut before Thanksgiving<\/p>\n

The City Hall official who spoke to amNewYork on the condition of anonymity said word of the terminations leaked to the press before all staff had been notified, leaving some to learn of their job loss from news reports the day before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to tell about three dozen people between last night and this morning that Zohran Mamdani does not want them to have a job come Jan. 1. You know, the number of kids in my office crying \u2014 it\u2019s breaking my heart,\u201d the official said on Nov. 26.<\/p>\n

While the incoming administration has asserted its right to bring in new personnel, the official claims the move disproportionately affects junior staff members, many in their early 20s, some of whom joined City Hall after Mamdani was elected.<\/p>\n

Another City Hall source described the notification process in more granular, on-the-ground terms: staff were given two lists \u2014 those \u201cdefinitively not being retained\u201d and those told they could show up on Jan. 1 \u2014 with little clarity about what being \u201cretained\u201d actually means in practice.<\/p>\n

The source said there has been minimal follow-up guidance and that many employees who are technically being asked to show up on Jan. 1 are unsure whether they will be dismissed days later or considered for longer-term roles.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs being retained the same as being considered for a job, or is it, \u2018Hey, we\u2019re looking for some folks who can help show us where the light switches are\u2019 and then help everybody transition out pretty quickly? We just don\u2019t know,\u201d they said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That City Hall source also said morale on their team remains cohesive with colleagues are sharing job postings and referrals, but that those who learned they would not be kept are already beginning outside conversations about next steps.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have folks on our team who have been here since the Dinkins administration\u2026 longtime public servants, civil servants, and also people more politically attuned to this administration,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

Deputy Mayor for Communications Fabien Levy, in a statement on behalf of the outgoing administration, said every incoming mayor has the right to assemble a new team but criticized the decision to remove long-time civil servants who helped manage COVID-19, the asylum-seeker crisis and other emergencies.<\/p>\n

He called the terminations \u201ca massive loss for New Yorkers\u201d and said the staff being let go \u201cshould not be the victims of political gamesmanship.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery new administration has a right to build its own team, and while there may be a reflexive reaction to terminate employees, being mayor must come with a level of compassion and respect for the 300,000+ city employees who serve their fellow New Yorkers. That\u2019s what Mayor Adams did by keeping on long-time public servants who served in the Bloomberg and de Blasio administrations,\u201d said Levy.<\/p>\n

Over 70,000 people apply to work for Mamdani<\/p>\n

The sweeping staff changes come as Mamdani prepares to take office with a large transition infrastructure behind him.\n<\/p>\n

His team has appointed more than 400 people across 17 committees to serve as \u201ccritical advisors,\u201d charged with developing policy guidance and recommending hires ahead of his Jan. 1 inauguration.<\/p>\n

The transition has also drawn broad public interest, with roughly 70,000 people applying to work in the new administration through an open hiring portal, with applicants averaging 28 years old.\n<\/p>\n

Last week, Mamdani\u2019s transition team also announced it had raised more than $2 million to support the handoff of power, backed by roughly 25,620 individual donors contributing an average of $75. The transition fund, the team said, will help hire and retain staff responsible for building out the new administration, cover office operations, and support the infrastructure needed to ensure the incoming government is prepared to \u201cdeliver on day one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As New York City prepares for a mayoral transition, members of outgoing Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 administration expressed disappointment…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":420187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13572,5289,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-420186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-assembly-member-zohran-mamdani","10":"tag-eric-adams","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115651695355251647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420186","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=420186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}