As Mayor Mamdani shapes his administration, attention is turning to an agency many New Yorkers may not think about often \u2014 but one that affects daily life across the city.<\/p>\n
The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection is responsible for protecting consumers, overseeing worker rights and regulating businesses. Its mission is to ensure New Yorkers are not taken advantage of in their everyday transactions.<\/p>\n
News 12 sat down with Commissioner Sam Levine to discuss the work the agency is doing to protect New Yorkers\u2019 wallets and how it fits into the mayor\u2019s broader agenda.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s Department of Sanitation has a new commissioner. Mayor Mamdani announced Gregory Anderson will lead the department, overseeing a workforce of nearly 10,000 employees. Anderson will continue advancing goals to improve trash handling and expand curbside composting across the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Mayor Mamdani shapes his administration, attention is turning to an agency many New Yorkers may not think…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-171421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171421","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=171421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}