Seven months in, City Council asks Mamdani’s community safety office: What’s actually new?

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has big plans for his Office of Community Safety. But seven months after he created it, City Council members spent part of Friday’s oversight hearing trying to establish what the office actually does beyond expanding programs the city already had.

Public Safety Committee Chair Oswald Feliz raised the question twice, while Community Safety Commissioner Ayesha Delany-Brumsey pointed to expanded services and closer coordination among existing city offices.