{"id":35673,"date":"2025-11-11T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35673\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:22:11","slug":"eric-adams-economic-development-honcho-seeks-to-keep-post-in-zohran-mamdani-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35673\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Adams&#8217; economic development honcho seeks to keep post in Zohran Mamdani admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top economic development honcho in<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/10\/us-news\/eric-adams-jetting-off-to-israel-this-week-as-city-hall-tenure-winds-down\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 <\/a>administration is seeking to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/07\/us-news\/eric-adams-agreed-to-fully-cooperate-with-zohran-mamdanis-transition-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retain his post <\/a>with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Kimball, the president of the city\u2019s Economic Development Corporation, is seeking to stay on as EDC chief in the Mamdani administration \u2014 and has the support of the city\u2019s influential business advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Kimball (second from right) is hoping to retain his post with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>Kimball is seeking to stay on as EDC chief. Getty Images for Pursuit Transformation Company Inc<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndrew Kimball is among the outstanding members of the Adams administration who has worked closely with the business community to build a stronger and more diverse economy,\u201d said Kathryn Wylde, CEO of the prominent Partnership for New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would welcome his reappointment to the CEO role at EDC,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Mamdani transition team declined to comment. Kimball also declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The EDC chief is a valued member of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/31\/us-news\/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-to-announce-major-investment-in-nypd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Adams\u2019 administration<\/a> with close ties to the current mayor and key associates. He wrote the foreword for the book written by Adams\u2019 longtime political confidante and former chief of staff Frank Carone, \u201cEveryone Wins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mamdani transition team declined to comment. James Keivom<\/p>\n<p>Kimball previously served as the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/12\/brooklyns-industry-city-producing-leases-like-crazy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CEO of Industry City<\/a>, where he oversaw the transformation of the long-underutilized industrial facility in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and before that he headed the Brooklyn Navy Yard Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>The EDC is involved in virtually every major economic development project in the city. For example, the not-for-profit agency <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/09\/us-news\/infamous-bronx-jail-barge-getting-the-boot-to-make-way-for-new-nyc-marine-terminal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is converting an <\/a>infamous mothballed jail barge in Hunts Point in The Bronx into a new marine facility.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also oversees thes subsidized NYC Ferry service, waterfront development and leasing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top economic development honcho in Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 administration is seeking to retain his post with Mayor-elect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5868,81,68,57,9,24,55,54,56,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-35673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-economic-development","9":"tag-eric-adams","10":"tag-exclusive","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-city-news","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-us-news","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35673","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=35673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}