Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio named Anthony Shorris a veteran New York-based public official as his deputy mayor f🥂or operations.
The appointment, announced on Wednesday, was de Blasio’s first staffing choice since winning a landslide election last month.
Shorris, 56, has worked in education, healthcare and transportati🥂on. He is currently the senior vice president, 🐷vice dean and chief of staff of NYU Langone Medical Center.
Shorris’ service for the city includes four years as de♐puty budget director and two years as finance commis🦩sioner under Mayor Koch.
He was a senior policy adviser to Eliot Spitzer’s gubernatorial campaign in 2006 and was named by Spitzer as executive director of the Port Authority in 2007. He resigned in 2008 after꧙ Spit💙zer was succeeded by David Paterson.
Before that he was a deputy chancellor in the Board of Education during the Giuliani administration and served under chancellors Harold Levy and Joel Klein. Shorris, who is married and has a son, Michael, holds degrees from Harvard and Princeton and has taught economics at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Intern🎃ational Affairs.
De Blasio is expected to announce his pick for police commissioner later this week and say whether his famiy will mov𝓀e into Gracie Mansion or keep living in the🀅ir Park Slope row house.
