Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday he would keep Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner if elected mayor.
“I think Commissioner Tisch has done a really, really good job,” Cuomo said of New York City’s top cop during an appearance on CBS’s “The Point with Marcia Kramer.”
“I would say off the bat I would ask her to stay,” he said. 4
Kramer had asked Cuomo which top officials or agency heads in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration he would consider keeping if the ex-governor wins the race for City Hall.
Cuomo, who lost the Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani in June, is still running on the independent “Fight and Deliver” ballot line.
Front-runner Mamdani has said he was “actively considering” keeping Tisch.
Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, when asked if he would keep Tisch, told Pix