Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will appoint two more Bill de Blasio alums to jobs in his administration, he announced Wednesday \u2013 after nearly a month of silence from his\u00a0transition team.<\/p>\n
Jahmila Edwards will enter the proud socialist\u2019s administration as the director of intergovernmental affairs, while Catherine Almonte Da Costa will serve as the next director of appointments, Mamdani said at a press conference in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
The move gave some political insiders a case of deja vu. <\/p>\n
Fewer than a half dozen have been named to the incoming administration. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is really just a re-run of the de Blasio administration,\u201d one insider quipped to The Post.<\/p>\n
Edwards, who worked for de Blasio as public advocate and mayor, comes from influential union, DC37, where she\u2019s been for a decade, and Da Costa, who was contracted to work on communications for the census under the former mayor, is leaving as the head of culture at Orchestra. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe know our efforts are ambitious \u2014 and we also know they are necessary. With Jahmila as director of intergovernmental affairs, we are leaving the politics of settling for less in the past and showcasing a government that fights for working people first,\u201d Mamdani said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd with Catherine Almonte Da Costa as director of appointments, we have a true expert in talent acquisition in City Hall, making sure excellence is at the core of city government operations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The appointments were the first made public in weeks \u2014 with the last big move coming in late November when NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch accepted Mamdani\u2019s offer to stay on as the Big Apple\u2019s top cop. Mamdani had made his intentions to keep Tisch on clear, in a move largely viewed as a political strategy to ease concerns about his radical criminal justice agenda.<\/p>\n
The only other outside appointment came in mid-November, when the incoming mayor tapped longtime de Blasio top aide Dean Fuleihan as first deputy mayor.<\/p>\n