New York City accountability tracker
Who joined and who left the Mamdani administration
A running list of senior and mid-level political appointees brought into City Hall and the agencies since Jan. 1, 2026, alongside those who have departed. It excludes rank-and-file civil servants such as police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers and public school teachers.
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How this list is built
Who is included. Mayoral and agency political appointees in the civil-service exempt class — deputy mayors, commissioners, agency heads, chiefs, senior advisors, press and policy staff, and board appointees. Rank-and-file civil servants are excluded by design.Salaries. A green dollar figure is shown only where the city publishes an official base salary for that title (the Quadrennial Advisory Commission's mayoral-appointee schedule). Everyone else is marked "not yet disclosed" until they appear in the Citywide Payroll dataset, which lags by fiscal year. No salary is estimated or invented.Dates. Reflect the announcement or confirmation date where reported; "transition" marks hires made during the December 2025 transition before Inauguration Day.Sources. Each entry links to a primary or news source. Seeded from the Mayor's Office press releases, City & State New York, FOX 5, the New York Building Congress tracker and the Mamdani Tracker, and cross-checked in July 2026 against an administration organizational chart circulated by the lobbying firm Immortal Strategies. Aggregators and outside charts are used only as leads: every name they surfaced was re-verified against an official announcement or a news report before it was listed here, and several of the chart's entries were corrected in the process.Status. "Retained" marks officials kept on or reappointed from the Adams administration rather than newly brought in. The departed column includes Adams-era holdovers who left as the administration changed.Judicial appointments. The mayor's Criminal and Family Court judicial appointments and reappointments are included as a separate area, since they are mayoral appointments but sit outside the administration's agencies. Filter them in or out with the area dropdown.Judicial screening committee. The 18 members of the Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, named on July 23, 2026, are listed as their own area. They are mayoral appointees who screen candidates for judgeships; they are not city employees and hold no agency post.What is not here. The list stops roughly at the level the city publishes. Deputy and assistant commissioners, agency chiefs of staff and general counsels are largely absent, because they appear in no press release and are not yet in the Citywide Payroll dataset. Outside org charts also list officeholders who are not mayoral appointees at all — the CUNY chancellor, for instance, is chosen by the university's trustees — and those are excluded.
This is a working draft, not an official roster. Corrections and additions welcome
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Everything substantive — the concept, the choice of who counts as a political appointee, and the editorial judgment — was handled by the author (a human). The coding and data assembly were primarily in the hands of Anthropic's Claude and Claude Code, under close direction. The author interrogated Claude throughout and insisted on quality controls. Those included sourcing every entry to a named press release or news report (linked on each card); showing a salary figure only where the city officially publishes one for that title, never estimating or inventing a number; and flagging the data's limits in the methodology above. Nevertheless, the risks of using AI remain, and we'd be especially grateful to learn of any red flags, errors or omissions you notice.