{"id":99599,"date":"2026-01-14T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99599\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:30:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-mayor-mamdani-nominates-midori-valdivia-as-commissioner-of-nyc-taxi-limousine-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99599\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Mayor Mamdani nominates Midori Valdivia as commissioner of NYC Taxi &#038; Limousine Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani nominated Midori Valdivia as commissioner of the New York City Taxi &amp; Limousine Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani announced Valdivia\u2019s nomination at a press conference Tuesday evening outside LaGuardia Airport\u2019s Terminal C Taxi Hold Lot.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MTA, Valdivia is no stranger to the TLC; she once held the role of deputy commissioner, where she led efforts to develop one of the largest wheelchair-accessible taxi fleets in the U.S. at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Valdivia, a Princeton graduate, is currently the chief operating officer for the Coro New York Leadership Center and has held senior roles at major transportation agencies in NYC, including the MTA.<\/p>\n<p>The TLC commissioner nominee began her career at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani nominated Midori Valdivia as commissioner of the New York City Taxi &amp; Limousine Commission. Mamdani&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45774,1087,22925,9,56,63,65,64,5259],"class_list":["post-99599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-commissioner","tag-laguardia-airport","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-taxi-and-limousine-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99599","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=99599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}