SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — They’re making sure it’s a smooth transition from A to Z.
Zohran Mamdani chatted with his soon-to-be-predecessor Eric Adams about the transition to City Hall, The Post has learned — as the mayor-elect revealed he still doesn’t have a meeting booked with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
Adams promised to “fully cooperate” with Mamdani’s transition team in the less than two months before the socialist is sworn in, a City Hall spokesperson said.
But the key question whether Tisch — the well-regarded top cop appointed by Adams — will stay in the incoming administration remains open, as Mamdani said Thursday he has yet to schedule a sit-down with her.
“Right now, the only meetings I have are for the next few days,” he said during the SOMOS political retreat in Puerto Rico.
Mamdani’s promise to keep Tisch as police commissioner helped assuage fears among moderate New Yorkers that the Big Apple would backslide on crime under a mayor who once said on social media that the NYPD was “racist.”
But many of Mamdani’s lefty supporters have been uneasy with retaining Tisch, who sharply differs with the Democratic Socialists of America member on criminal justice reform and other public safety policies.
Those tensions flared up Thursday as the New York Daily News reported that Tisch had received a heads up from President Trump’s administration about the controversial ICE busts along Canal Street in late October.
Mamdani, when asked whether Tisch acted appropriately, argued the NYPD rightly stayed out of immigration enforcement.
“It’s important to continue a separation between NYPD and ICE,” he said. “And I think it’s important to bring an end to a chapter, which Eric Adams said on national TV, where he opened the door to civil immigration enforcement.”
Adams said Wednesday that if Mamdani “is smart” he would retain some of his staff, including Tisch.
“If he’s smart, he will keep some of my team members, like the police commissioner, DOT Commissioner, my other team members — they have the experience,” he said.
Mamdani told Tisch prior to Tuesday’s election that they’d speak after Nov. 4 about his plan to keep her as commissioner, The Post previously reported.
Top New York Democrats including Gov. Kathy Hochul — who said she would have a say in his City Hall appointments after she endorsed Mamdani — and House Majority Speaker Hakeem Jeffries have pushed the mayor-elect to keep Tisch on as he sought their backing, sources said.
Tisch has not revealed publicly whether she would accept an offer from Mamdani to remain in her post.
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