Mayor-elect Eric Adams tapped a diverse group of labor, business and nonprofit leaders to lead his transition team, and today announced the full committee.
Adams, who will be sworn in as the city’s 110th mayor on Jan. 1, said his transition team will be chaired by Sheena Wright, the president of United Way of New York City, a nonprofit focused on providing community services for low-income residents.
“I’m proud of the diversity,” Adams said in an interview on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show.” “We have a large number of people from the private sector, the business sector, those who are service providers.”
Among those on the transition committee are a number of Crown Heights activists, including Devorah Halberstam, Honorary Safety Commissioner in the NYPD and co-founder of the Jewish Children’s Museum, Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, Director of Operation Survival, Public Relations Liaison for Chabad Headquarters, chair of the Public Safety Committee for Community Board 9, and founder of the Jewish Future Alliance, Rabbi Chanina Sperlin, Inter-Governmental Liaison for the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council and Rabbi Eli Cohen, Executive Director of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council.
The Transition Committee is led by the Transition Team, selected by the Mayor-Elect to review the current status of the various government agencies and the vision of the Mayor-Elect to develop recommendations to be included in the Mayor-Elect’s 100-day plan.
THRILLED to see Yaacov Behrman, who is totally devoted to our community – his parents are surely very proud. Mazel Tov to all and may we enter a new and much better chapter for NY City NOW.
Amazing to see Devorah Halberstam on the Public Safety Committee. Looks like she’s Eric Adams’ only Crown Heights resident trusted on police matters. Keep up your great work Devorah!!
I agree 100% make us proud