Zohran Mamdani Announces NYC Deputy Mayor and Chief of Staff Ahead of 2026 Term | APT - video Dailymotion

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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has announced two key appointments for his incoming administration.  Dean Fuleihan will serve as first deputy mayor, bringing decades of experience in city and state government. Elle Bisgaard-Church, Mamdani's state Assembly chief of staff and campaign manager, will become his chief of staff at City Hall.  Mamdani emphasized a fresh approach to leadership: "We are making our own city hall, learning from those before us while building a new way forward."  The new administration takes office on January 1, 2026, with priorities including universal childcare, faster public transit, and rent stabilization for over two million tenants.  #NYC #ZohranMamdani #DeanFuleihan #ElleBisgaardChurch #CityHall #NewYorkPolitics #DeputyMayor #ChiefOfStaff #NYCNews #LocalGovernment

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00:00First, I want to announce my first Deputy Mayor, Dean Fulahan, except that I know for

00:12many he will require no introduction.

00:16I am grateful to him for returning to public service, and I know he has chosen to do so

00:21because he believes in our administration's ability to deliver universal childcare, making

00:26the slowest buses in America fast and free, and freezing the rent for more than 2 million

00:31rent-stabilized tenants in this city.

00:36Dean has been an incredibly influential leader and manager in New York City government and

00:42state government for almost five decades.

00:45No one is better versed in how city government functions, how it engages productively with

00:50leadership in Albany, or has a deeper understanding of how to achieve positive outcomes from even

00:55the most challenging of situations.

01:00I also want to announce my incoming Chief of Staff, the unparalleled El Bisgard Church.

01:12Few have played a more central role in this movement, or in every victory we achieved together

01:17in the Assembly, than El.

01:20She became my Assembly Chief of Staff nearly five years ago to the day.

01:24She worked closely with me to win hundreds of millions of dollars in relief for taxi drivers,

01:29and served as the campaign manager for our historic primary campaign.

01:34Anyone who knows El knows her as someone unapologetically committed to the cause of improving the lives

01:40of working people.

01:41A million people said last week that they want more from City Hall, that they expect better

01:54from their leaders.

01:56They said loudly and clearly, it is not asking too much that New York be a place people can

02:01afford to live.

02:03The mayor-elect has received a democratic mandate.

02:07We take seriously the responsibility of this mandate, and all that it will take to run the

02:11city well.

02:13We will work relentlessly to make good on our campaign promises.

02:17During my tenure, I promise that this administration will be open-minded, strategically oriented, and

02:24pragmatically focused.

02:26We will be open to new ideas, because we know the old ones aren't working.

02:32It is my pleasure and honor to welcome the Mamdani Administration's First Deputy Mayor, Dean Foulihan.

02:45I come from an immigrant family.

02:48My father, an immigrant from Lebanon, my mother whose parents immigrated from Lebanon, and her

02:53first language Arabic.

02:55They struggled, and succeeded, and instilled in my brothers and me a deep sense of public

03:02service, and a commitment to providing others that same opportunity.

03:09The same is true of my wife's parents, who both immigrated from Korea.

03:14The mayor-elect has provided that same hope in every message throughout the campaign.

03:23I am one of the many that was deeply inspired by that message of hope.

03:29I firmly believe in this agenda, and I am proud to join a team that will be devoted to

03:35this agenda and will work every day to make it happen.

03:38A specific thing that you have dealt with is a Trump administration, and I wonder if…

03:50The truth is I am 5'11".

03:52It's true that I am shorter than one of the previous mayors.

03:55I am going to create a new City Hall.

04:04It is a City Hall that will look to experts in the work of government, experts such as our

04:13soon-to-be First Deputy Mayor.

04:15But it is not a City Hall that looks to any previous administration as a model that we

04:19will take on word-for-word, step-for-step.

04:22We are making our own, and we are lucky in that there are many who have come before us

04:26who have shown us both the ways in which we can succeed and the pitfalls that await those

04:30who look to do so.

04:31And I am excited to build on that.

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