{"id":86377,"date":"2026-01-01T09:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86377\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T09:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:33:15","slug":"mayor-zohran-mamdani-names-mike-flynn-as-dot-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86377\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani names Mike Flynn as DOT commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Zohran Mamdani named Mike Flynn \u2014 a former city Department of Transportation director \u2014 as the DOT commissioner at his swearing-in ceremony<\/a> just after midnight Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can think of no better person,\u201d Mamdani said as he introduced Flynn moments after taking the oath of office at a shuttered subway stop<\/a> underneath City Hall Park.<\/p>\n

Leading the DOT \u201cwill require someone who\u2019s experienced, who is fluent in the landscape as it is, who is ambitious and imaginative towards the landscape as it could be,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n

Mike Flynn \u2014 a former city Department of Transportation director \u2014 was named as DOT commissioner on Thursday. AP<\/p>\n

Flynn worked at the DOT for nearly a decade, from 2005 to 2014, starting as a project manager for the agency\u2019s pedestrian and bicycle programs before rising through the ranks to a director position.<\/p>\n

He will replace former Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 appointee, current transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

Flynn praised the new mayor and cited his childhood fascination with the city\u2019s diverse infrastructure as a testament to his passion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know firsthand that New York City DOT has some of the most passionate, talented, and committed public servants in the country, if not the world. And they\u2019re ready to think big and deliver big on our ambitious agenda,\u201d Flynn said as he stood alongside Mamdani. <\/p>\n

He left the agency in 2014 and joined TYLin, an engineering and consulting firm that specifically works on infrastructure and transportation projects, according to his LinkedIn<\/a>. He is currently the firm\u2019s vice president and sector manager for the New York area.<\/p>\n

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as NYC\u2019s 112th mayor on Jan. 1, 2026. AP<\/p>\n

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks after taking the oath of office inside the Old City Hall subway station, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, in New York. AP<\/p>\n

A large part of Flynn\u2019s work will likely be centered around Mamdani\u2019s lofty goal to overhaul public transportation in the Big Apple, including plans to make the city\u2019s buses free for all New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

Riders Alliance, a grassroots organization that advocates for better public transport in the city, echoed Mamdani\u2019s aspirations for fare elimination while celebrating Flynn\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n

\u201cA city that works for bus riders is a city that works for everyone, and we\u2019ll be looking to this administration to make that standard real \u2014 and to hold the entire system accountable for getting riders where they need to go, quickly and reliably,\u201d the nonprofit\u2019s executive director, Betsy Plum, wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n

Plum also highlighted Flynn\u2019s membership with the grassroots organization. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani named Mike Flynn \u2014 a former city Department of Transportation director \u2014 as the DOT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5459,1092,9,11,10,63,87,22485,58,82],"class_list":["post-86377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-mayor","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-swearing-in","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86377","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=86377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}