Metropolis Corridor’s tech czar Jessica Tisch has been named as the brand new head of the Division of Sanitation, Mayor Eric Adams introduced Monday.
Tisch — whose household owns the Loews Company — most lately served as commissioner of the Workplace of Expertise and Innovation after former Mayor Invoice de Blasio tapped her for the position in 2019.
Earlier than that, she served because the NYPD’s deputy commissioner for data know-how.
“Jessica’s data, expertise, and unwavering dedication to New York Metropolis can't be overstated,” Adams mentioned in a press launch.
“Put plainly, Jessica is a ‘Get Stuff Finished’ chief, who has delivered steady outcomes on behalf of all New Yorkers all through her profession. From revolutionizing policing know-how within the NYPD, to overseeing crucial pandemic packages to assist New Yorkers in want, Jessica’s work has touched hundreds of thousands,” he added.
“All New Yorkers deserve clear, secure, and welcoming streets, and I do know Jessica will carry the identical vitality and ship outcomes main the sanitation division as we proceed constructing a simply and affluent restoration for all.”
Throughout Tisch’s time within the police division, its high-tech fingerprint database was quickly crippled by a virus, and the NYPD in 2017 was pressured to scrap a $160 million smartphone program as a result of the 36,000 Nokia gadgets given to cops grew to become out of date after simply two years.
On the time, regulation enforcement sources blamed Tisch for the screw-up, with one saying, “She drove the entire course of.”
Three years later, Tisch facilitated the rollout of a digital log app on cops’ telephones to interchange hand-written paper logs that officers beforehand used to trace their every day exercise.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Tisch was a member of the Metropolis Corridor crew that managed the vaccination sign-up system.
Tisch — whose billionaire father, James Tisch, is the CEO of the Loews Company, based by her grandfather, Laurence Tisch — first entered metropolis authorities in 2008, when she started working within the NYPD’s counterterrorism unit.
After serving as Commissioner Ray Kelly’s director of planning for counterterrorism, she was named deputy commissioner for data know-how in February 2014 amid a personnel shakeup underneath the brand new mayoral administration.
Adams’ appointment of Tisch as sanitation commissioner comes after the departure of Kathryn Garcia, who got here in second in final 12 months’s Democratic mayoral major.
In September, Gov. Kathy Hochul selected Garcia — who's broadly thought to be a reliable supervisor — to function her director of state operations. Garcia stop the de Blasio administration in September 2020 in protest of price range cuts.
It additionally comes after the retirement earlier this month of the company’s most up-to-date commissioner, division veteran Edward Grayson, who labored for the division for 23 years.
“I additionally wish to thank Commissioner Grayson for his many years of service — all New Yorkers owe him a debt of gratitude for his unwavering management all through the pandemic,” Adams mentioned.
Tisch grew up in New York Metropolis and is a graduate of each the Harvard Faculty Legislation and Enterprise college. In February, the Battle of Curiosity Board slapped her with a $2,000 fantastic for loaning a buddy $75,000 to assist pay for regulation college, and subsequently supervising that buddy and serving to get him a promotion whereas on the NYPD.
In a press launch, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg heaped reward on Tisch.
“New York Metropolis deserves public servants like Jessica Tisch, who work laborious, clear up issues creatively, and take public service severely,” Bloomberg gushed. “She is a implausible selection to guide DSNY and can throw herself into the mission of retaining our communities clear, preventing local weather change, and bringing improvements and new concepts to this vital company.
“Delivering important providers is authorities’s primary job and I do know Jessie is greater than as much as the duty.”
Stated Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY), “Jessica Tisch will do an ideal job as town’s subsequent commissioner of sanitation.”
“She has the managerial and governmental expertise, the vitality, and that New York can-do angle that may hold DSNY buzzing,” Schumer added. “I want her all the very best.”
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