NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday the creation of the position of Deputy Mayor for Communications, who will be responsible for coordinating and ensuring that local government agencies “speak with one unified message,” and has appointed Fabien Levy, who has been the mayor’s spokesman up to now, for the position.
“There is no one I trust more to amplify and spread our message than Fabien Levy, a passionate communicator. A native New Yorker raised by working-class Jewish parents from the Middle East,” Adams said, making the announcement at a news conference accompanied by other city deputy mayors.
He stressed that Levy, the son of immigrants, will be the first deputy mayor of Iranian or Iraqi descent (nationality of his two parents) of the city. “We will work together to meet the challenges ahead,” he said.
“This announcement is only possible because of the people who helped me get to where I am today, including all my family, friends and colleagues,” Levy said.
“Since I was a child, I knew it was my responsibility to give back, to help others and, as the Jewish principle ‘tikkun olam’ translates: to repair the world. It’s that sense of responsibility, that sense of community, of leaving the world in a better place than when we got here, which drives me every day,” said the new deputy mayor.
In January 2022, when Adams took office, he appointed Levy as the Mayor’s press spokesperson. Levy has worked on numerous presidential elections, for the US Senate and House of Representatives as well as mayoral candidates across the country, as well as for the California government, according to the mayor’s office.
Among the campaigns is, in 2011, that of Kathy Hochul -current governor- for Congress and after working for more than a year as its communications director in the federal House of Representatives, she joined the Administration of President Barack Obama as spokesperson Department of Health and Human Services press release.
He was also press secretary for New York Attorney General Letitia James.
