{"id":110666,"date":"2026-01-24T03:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/110666\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:45:08","slug":"nyc-emergency-management-chief-talks-resignation-snowstorm-preps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/110666\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC emergency management chief talks resignation, snowstorm preps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2013 The Mamdani administration saw an unexpected shakeup this week with the resignation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/nyc-official-expected-resign-office-230149856.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Zach Iscol;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Iscol<\/a>, the commissioner of New York City Emergency Management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Former Mayor Eric Adams appointed Iscol early in his term. He\u2019s been in the role since February 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:More Local News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> More Local News <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As commissioner, Iscol led the city\u2019s emergency response spanning from weather events to the migrant crisis. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/nyc-official-expected-resign-office-230149856.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:last day will be Feb. 11;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last day will be Feb. 11<\/a>, and he will remain at the helm of the department through this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/nyc-could-14-inches-snow-133152898.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:weekend\u2019s snowstorm;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weekend\u2019s snowstorm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So what\u2019s next for Iscol? And why did he decide to leave his post just weeks into the Mamdani administration?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Iscol joined PIX on Politics to discuss all of this and more. Watch the video player for the full interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2013 The Mamdani administration saw an unexpected shakeup this week with the resignation of Zach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[81,9,56,63,65,64,6704],"class_list":["post-110666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-eric-adams","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-zach-iscol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}