One day after being hired by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Catherine Almonte Da Costa submitted her resignation after antisemitic statements in old Twitter posts dating back to 2011 surfaced Thursday. <\/p>\n
Mamdani transition sources tell NBC New York that he and his transition were unaware of the posts when they appointed Da Costa Wednesday. <\/p>\n
When Mamdani put Da Costa in charge of hiring for the City she pledged to recruit diverse talent.<\/p>\n
“They have to reflect the rich diversity of race faith ethnicity that defines this City,” she said at the time. <\/p>\n
But today, 33-year-old Da Costa was apologizing for antisemitic posts dating back to when she was 18 years old. The posts were uncovered by Timmy Facciola in a story on Substack. Soon after, Da Costa took down her Twitter account.<\/p>\n
In a statement released by the Mamdani transition team, Da Costa said: “As the mother of two Jewish children, I deeply regret and apologize for these tweets from well over a decade ago. These comments do not in any way shape or form reflect who I am or my views and beliefs today.”<\/p>\n
Some Jewish groups including the Anti-Defamation League are demanding an explanation from Mamdani.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, in an updated statement from Da Costa to NBC New York, she said she had spoken with Mamdani this afternoon, apologized, and expressed deep regret, saying that since this has become a distraction from the work at hand she offered her resignation.<\/p>\n
Mamdani subsequently issued his own statement, saying: \u201cCatherine expressed her deep remorse over her past statements and tendered her resignation, and I accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n
DaCosta had years of private sector experience shaping leadership strategies for corporations. A Dominican immigrant raised in Queens she previously indicated she has already been helping Mamdani with hiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day after being hired by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Catherine Almonte Da Costa submitted her resignation after antisemitic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56,87],"class_list":{"0":"post-74914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74914","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=74914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}