New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani fires hundreds of City Hall staffers

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has fired 179 city employees, many of them political appointees by Mayor Eric Adams.

"Every administration can choose their own team. I think it's surprising that so many people were not given the opportunity to fight for their jobs. That's what's surprising," Deputy Mayor Fabien Levy said.


Levy says they never had a chance. Scores of City Hall staffers who were told that there's no room for them in the Mamdani Administration.

"I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people in this building voted for mayor-elect Mamdani. That's totally fine. And so they should have been given an opportunity to interview for a job," Levy said. "Instead, they were told yesterday and today that they're going to be laid off come January 1st," Levy said.

"Tonight you have delivered a mandate for change. A mandate for a new kind of politics," Mamdani said the night he was elected.

Mamdani's promise of a "new kind of politics," apparently includes a clean break from Eric Adams. But Levy says it goes beyond that.