Mayor-Elect Mamdani taps ex–de Blasio official as top adviser

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00:00Thank you for the generous comments, but thank you for the privilege of joining the administration

00:05and the trust you're placing me to serve our city.

00:10I am proud to be returning to City Hall as your first deputy mayor.

00:16New Yorkers elected you because they know you will build an administration of energy, ideas, and experience.

00:23I am confident that that experience, that my experience, can be useful to the mayor-elect and this team.

00:32And I know, there's no way to doubt it, after what we've seen, it will be a dedicated, effective team

00:41implementing the serious agenda of addressing affordability in New York.

00:46The mayor-elect has provided that same hope in every message throughout the campaign.

00:54I am one of the many that was deeply inspired by that message of hope.

01:00I firmly believe in this agenda, and I am proud to join a team that will be devoted to this agenda

01:07and will work every day to make it happen.

01:10Again, thank you so much for this privilege.

01:13With both houses, I do have experience there.

01:16I've been told many times in the past things could not happen directly, and that's not what we're being told.

01:22We're being told, let's have a conversation, and that's what we're going to do.

01:26And again, I said it at the end, this is an agenda that's achievable.

01:31We have to work on how to make sure that we come to those agreements.

01:35So I think it's quite doable.

01:37At the heart of these announcements is a commitment to excellence.

01:41Excellence requires that you assess individuals on the basis of the work they have done,

01:47not hold it against them who appointed them to that work.

01:50So if there are those who have done their job particularly well within an Adams administration,

01:55they will be considered all the same.

01:57And over the course of these next 50 or so days, we will start to make those announcements.

02:01And I'm also proud of the fact that in the portal that we opened up for individuals to apply,

02:06to work as part of our city hall, we have already seen tens of thousands of applicants come through.