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Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani broadcasts Sam Levine as commissioner of the NYC Division of Client and Employee Safety. Picture by Lloyd Mitchell Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani introduced Monday that Sam Levine, the previous director of the Federal Commerce Fee’s Bureau of Client Safety, will lead the town’s Division of Client and Employee Safety.  Levine labored below former FTC chair Lina Khan, who now co-chairs Mamdani’s 400-person transition crew, serving within the federal client safety workplace from 2021 till 2025. The Harvard Legislation College graduate shall be tasked with combating wage theft, worker misclassification, labor abuse and misleading or predatory company practices, the…

Metropolis Council Member Erik Bottcher Photograph courtesy NYC Council / Flickr. New York Metropolis Councilman Erik Bottcher is dropping his bid to succeed U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler in Congress to as an alternative run for an open State Senate seat, he introduced on Monday. “This decision is rooted in where I believe I can do the most good immediately,” Bottcher wrote in an announcement. “The State Senate is where critical decisions are being made on housing affordability, addressing the mental health crisis, safeguarding our environment, and defending New York from the Trump agenda.” Bottcher will run to succeed one other…