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Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell submitted her resignation to NYC Mayor Eric Adams on Monday with no prior
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“What [previous Mayor Mike] Bloomberg did was to sketch a vision of the city where crime was low, Melania Trump steps
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Compounding that, he added, Adams and his inner circle operate as if they are trying to run the entire city
themselves, an approach that becomes impractical when handling dozens of agencies.
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By contrast, Bloomberg empowered his commissioners and largely stayed out of their way.

Adams defended his management style and batted away questions about the extraordinarily high level of
turnover during the first 18 months of his administration at his first press conference since Sewell quit.

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“I have 320,000 employees,” a combative mayor told reporters, describing his management style as “very
unique.”

“People come and go. You don’t sign up and say, ‘I’m a lifer,’ you come, you provide your expertise,” he
added. “I do not stand in the way of a person’s desire to pursue their careers.”

Allies and longtime political hands were blunt in private, directly linking
and retain talent to Adams’ failure to
see also City Hall’s struggles to hire
establish a larger vision for his administration and preference for
stocking his innermost circle with longtime friends and allies.

“It’s about putting the right people in the right place,” said one. “Some
of the individuals he puts in place, they’re friends, it’s patronage; that
never works out.”

NYPD Commissioner “They hire a pro and then they cut her legs out,” the person added.
Keechant Sewell “They didn’t allow her to hire, they didn’t allow her to bring in a team,
suddenly resigns, they didn’t allow her to operate.”
blindsiding City Hall:
sources
The result, the person said: “It’s chaos.”

Frank Carone left his post as chief of staff for Mayor Adams.

Roberto Perez was among the first resignations in the Adams administration.
courtesy of the mayorâs office

Adams’ City Hall has seen

turnover in key posts during its first 18 months running
an extraordinary level of
the Big Apple: Hizzoner’s first chief of staff, Frank Carone, has left ditto First Deputy Mayor Lorraine ;

Grillo and his head of intergovernmental affairs, Roberto Perez.

,

Housing czar Jessica Katz top legal adviser Brendan McGuire, and communications director Maxwell
,

Young who coordinates the administration’s media strategies, have all announced plans to depart before
,

the end of summer.

That wave voluntary departures comes on top of City Hall seeing both Buildings
of Commissioner Eric
Ulrich and Social Services Commissioner Gary Jenkins resign amid scandal.

Maxwell Young, who coordinates the administration’s media strategies, has announced plans to depart before the end of
summer.
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Chief counsel Brendan McGuire said he will leave his post by September.
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Social Services Commissioner Gary Jenkins is being pressured to resign amid scandal.
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Jessica Katz announced her resignation and will leave her post by the end of summer.
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“You can’t be appointing your friends every other day,” said another. “There are a lot of people looking and
waiting for his vision of New York City.”

“Every day there’s a flag-raising, every day there’s a gala,” the second person added. “He really is getting
around the city. But is getting around the city running the city?”

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell's sudden resignation

Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell abruptly announced Monday that she was stepping down after
nearly a year and a half as the first woman at the helm of the NYPD.
Then-Mayor-elect Eric Adams tapped the Nassau County chief of detectives as the first female police
commissioner of the NYPD in December 2021. Sources at the time said Adams had long had his eye
on Sewell for commissioner after saying he wanted a woman to lead the department.
Sewell, a Queens native, was just the third black police commissioner after Benjamin Ward who served ,

from 1984 to 1989 under Mayor Ed Koch, and Lee Brown, Mayor David Dinkins’ first police chief, from
1990 to 1992.
She did not provide reason
her departure, and
a for it was not immediately clear who would be taking
over to lead the largest police force in the country.
Sewell’s relationship with City Hall had seemed to sour in recent months, with the commissioner finding
herself increasingly handcuffed when trying to make key department decisions, The Post reported .

Opponents of City Hall have leaped on the perception that Adams didn’t have Sewell’s back.

Sewell quit just hours after The Post revealed that Adams
had used an even heavier hand running the
department after she approved disciplinary action against a longtime friend of the mayor who was caught
on tape canceling out an arrest.

EricAdams and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell moments after their very first press conference together in
December 2021.
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“I empathize with the unique challenges she faced that are so familiar to many of us in positions that have
not traditionally been held by those who look like us,” said Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Queens),
who sits across the table from Hizzoner in the contentious budget talks.
But Adams is hardly the first mayor to lose a high-profile commissioner or be dealt with a string of non-
top crises — including when former Mayor Rudy Giuliani fired his high-profile Police Commissioner Bill
Bratton after he appeared on the cover of Time magazine.

Giuliani, a Republican, went on to win his second term in a landslide in a heavily Democratic city.

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Buildings Commissioner Eric Ulrich was pressured to resign.

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“People didn’t care, despite Bill Bratton, despite all those things,” said veteran political strategist Chris
Coffey, a veteran of the Bloomberg administration who was the chief strategist for Andrew Yang’s mayoral
campaign in 2021. “He crushed the Democrats in a Democratic town because he drove down crime.”

He added: “This mayor was elected on public safety.”

Another longtime strategist, Hank Sheinkopf, offered similar advice.

“He’s got three big problems: migrants, crime as there’s still a sense to the citizens that crime is up, and
it’s the budget,” said Sheinkopf. “You always get departures after the first year and a half. He has to get
this house in order quickly.”

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List of departures:
Former chief of staff Frank Carone
Former First Deputy Mayor Lorraine Grillo
Former Buildings Commissioner Eric Ulrich
Former Social Services/Homeless Services Commissioner Gary Jenkins
Chief Housing Officer Jessica Katz*
Intergovernmental Affairs chief Roberto Perez
Chief counsel Brendan McGuire*
Communications director Maxwell Young*
Taxi and Limousine Commissioner Heredia Jarmoszuk
Housing Authority Chairman/CEO Gregory Russ
*Departing later this summer

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Jack Ricardo
7 hours ago
Fasten your seat belts folks because the real storm clouds are the decline in commercial
roperty values that will lead to reduced tax revenues coupled with fat union contract for
servants." It is the 1970s all over again folks, an inept mayor, greedy unions and
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Woke-a-J0ke
6 hours ago
What happened in the S. Bronx circa the late 60s-80s will be far worse this time around.
entire city will burn!
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noeffort noeffortless
6 hours ago
And no Rudy to Clean up the mess!
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i_Talk_Reckless_On_The_internet
6 hours ago
The problem with Mayor Adams is he thinks he's the smartest person in the room. He doesn’t
et anyone do their jobs when they are clearly capable as in the case of the Police
He thinks he can run all the departments. Another issue is he likes to hire
family, loyalists, etc. T...
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Books
6 hours ago
He is a legend in his own mind …
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RENA COREY
3 hours ago
The problem crook,plain and simple. How much of a kick back does he get from
is he's a
is family and friends appointees? He's NY City's "big guy." Small in the brains
except for suits,fancy clubs and a greased palm.
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NT
6 hours ago
Bloomberg hired smart, competent people to be his commissioners so they are actually
ualified and can do the job. Adams hires his friends and family and unqualified people to fill
quotas. He is not held accountable because most of the city council is not qualified either.
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