New York City’s Jewish fire commissioner Robert Tucker announced his resignation the day after Zohran Mamdani was elected as the city’s mayor.
Tucker said in a statement on his resignation, “It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as the 35th New York City Fire Commissioner. Thank you to Mayor Adams for his trust and confidence in doing this job. We empowered the brave men and women who keep our city safe, bringing fire-related deaths to a historic low. I will leave this critical role on Dec. 19, 2025. Between now and then, I will continue to lead the greatest fire department in the world and will ensure an orderly transition.”
“Commissioner Robert Tucker has led the Fire Department of the City of New York with courage, passion, and a sincere dedication to public safety,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a statment to Fox News. “When I appointed Commissioner Tucker to this critical role, I knew he’d have the experience, grit, and zeal to protect our city and support our fearless heroes – the firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and paramedics who put their lives on the line for New York every day.”
“We are incredibly grateful for Commissioner Tucker’s service and look forward to seeing what he’ll do next,” he stated.
In his victory speech, Mamdani declared that “Muslims know that they belong – not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power.”
“No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election,” he asserted. “This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.”
