Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announcing the appointment of Dean Fuleihan as First Deputy Mayor and Elle Bisgaard-Church as Chief of Staff at a press conference at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College on Nov. 10, 2025. James Keivom

Don’t expect 1st Deputy Mayor-designate Dean Fuleihan to rein in an ounce of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani worst urges: He imposed no such restraint when he worked for Bill de Blasio.

Plus, Zoh’s pick for chief of staff, his longtime right hand Elle Bisgaard-Church , will be a voice of the same unreason that’s guided Mamdani’s entire political career to date.

The problem being that an assemblyman’s failings easily pass without notice, whereas 8 million New Yorkers suffer when a mayor screws up.

Those with a will to pull wool over thei

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