NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) — Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams is racing to fill key positions before Zohran Mamdani takes office, including on the powerful Rent Guidelines Board, which could undermine the incoming mayor’s pledge to freeze rents on more than 1 million stabilized apartments.
First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro said Adams plans to appoint and reappoint several members to the rental board before he steps down at year-end and is considering candidates who have put their names forward to fill vacant spots. The mayor could secure a majority of appointees whose terms would extend beyond Adams’s final days in office, Mastro said in an interview.
“It’s a nine-person board,” Mastro said. “At least five of the people on that board would be people who were either appointed by Mayor Adams before or could be appointed by Mayor Adams to continue” into 2026…