A new era is under way at Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Department of Citywide Administrative Services. A significant reorganization at the department will be announced on Friday impacting at least 13 employees, including seven who are expected to be terminated, according to a City Hall source granted anonymity to discuss the plans before the announcement.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a lot that\u2019s still unclear, like the full list of affected employees and the exact justifications for the reorganization. But the changes, which City & State is told include reassignments and pay cuts for a handful of the employees who aren\u2019t being terminated, are part of an effort by the Mamdani administration to signal they\u2019re taking a hard look at an agency caught up in corruption allegations during Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The source described some of the people affected as having been linked to or \u201cinstalled\u201d by former deputy commissioner Jesse Hamilton, who was indicted<\/a> last year for allegedly conspiring to direct a contract towards a real estate developer in exchange for personal favors. Hamilton was also under investigation<\/a> for steering<\/a> a major contract towards an Adams campaign donor. (Hamilton resigned following his indictment in August 2025 and pleaded not guilty.)<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear if the individuals affected by the firings and other reorganization are being cut for any specific wrongdoing.<\/p>\n Another source familiar with the department said that a small group of employees received an email on Thursday informing them of an in-person meeting with Human Resources on Friday morning. That source said that based on the people who received that email, it sounded more like routine transitions between administrations than people specifically linked to corruption allegations.<\/p>\n A DCAS employee, granted anonymity to discuss internal culture, suggested it\u2019s plausible the cuts are aimed at fighting corruption. \u201cIf I was at City Hall, I would go with their instinct. I would say if it doesn\u2019t smell too good, just throw it out,\u201d they said. \u201cDon\u2019t even bother tasting it. There\u2019s a lot of stale meat over there.\u201d That source said that salary cuts and demotions also occurred in the transition from Bill de Blasio\u2019s administration to the Adams administration.<\/p>\n The changes come just over a week after Mamdani appointed Yume Kitasei as DCAS commissioner. At that press conference, the two skimmed over a question about whether they would continue to perform \u2013 and eventually release \u2013\u00a0a review of contracts under Hamilton\u2019s purview. \u201cOf course, we\u2019re going to do a deep review of everything,\u201d Kitasei said. \u201cWe’ll work with the team to commit to transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new era is under way at Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Department of Citywide Administrative Services. A significant reorganization…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54431,29533,81,54432,9,24,11,10,82],"class_list":["post-125292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-administrative-services","tag-city-employees","tag-eric-adams","tag-jesse-hamilton","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125292","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=125292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}