Kathryn Garcia, a top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul and former DSNY commissioner, will become the next executive director of Port Authority, Hochul announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The news comes after Rick Cotton announced his retirement from the role after more than eight years.<\/p>\n
Garcia, a candidate in the Democratic primary for mayor in 2021, is currently the director of state operations for New York.<\/p>\n
She led the sanitation department under Mayor Bill de Blasio at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
Jackie Bray, emergency operations commissioner for the\u00a0Division of Homeland Security, will serve as the new director of state operations in Garcia’s place, Hochul announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kathryn Garcia, a top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul and former DSNY commissioner, will become the next executive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[109,25,1084,128,9,24,49,12,108,63,87,380,129,131,130,27,296,142,200],"class_list":["post-66206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-traffic-transit","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic-and-transit","tag-transit","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66206","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=66206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}