New York City Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker will step down next month, becoming the first senior official to resign following Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory, Bloomberg reported.

In a letter to Mayor Eric Adams dated November 5, Tucker called it “the honor of a lifetime” to serve as the city’s 35th fire commissioner and said he will step down effective December 19. He added that he would continue to lead the department and ensure an “orderly transition” until then.

Tucker, appointed by Mayor Adams in 2023, oversees roughly 17,000 firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics and manages the department’s $2.6 billion budget. Before joining city government, he founded and led T&M Protection Resources, a security and intelligence firm with operations in the U.S. and Israel. He is expected to return

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