City & State Lillian Bonsignore Mamdani Appointment-FDNY Commish.

https://www.cityandstateny.com/personality/2025/12/mamdani-appoints-lillian-bonsignore-lead-fdny/410370/****** Lillian Bonsignore-Bronx native-longtime EMT has been appointed as new FDNY head. The problems she faces are pay inequities with other first responders for EMT and RESPONSE TIMES. Now here's a conundrum. Ben Furnas- the head of CAR HATING Transportation Alternatives has been appointed to Mamdani's transition team. Should he succeed the career and job seeking pol Ydanis Rodrieguez The Apple could be faced with a faster build out of Vision Zero. Vision Zero is substantially responsible for the slower EMS response times. Bike lanes. Bike racks. Vastly increased ridership especially with the problematic E-Bikes and micro transport brigades. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Outgoing Eric Adams liked to ride a bike-or so photo ops conveyed. Look at the coterie of appointments and resignations that resulted. Mamdani and outgoing Comptroller Lander like to ride bikes. Let's see how indicated zealotry stacks up against corruption. Will pragmatism win the day? JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has offered to "Help" the incoming administraton. He says some of his Democratic friends are "idiots." My veteran of the bike industry take is that zealotry will lock horns with pragmatism. Let's hope female transition team exercises compassion and pragmatism. Randy Mastro who brought experience and professionalism to Deputy Mayor's office refuses to work in a Democratic Socialist administration. He and Jessica Tisch semi rescued competence under the tarnished Adams administration. The city has voted for a youthful experiment. Stay alert. Stay alive. Let's hope a pragmatic approach is taken to public safety.