Mayor Zohran Mamdani swears in FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore at packed ceremony after criticism

Source: New York Post

Mayor Zohran Mamdani swore in his new fire department commissioner Tuesday in front of a packed house of New York’s bravest.   The ceremony held at the FDNY headquarters in Brooklyn cemented Lillian Bonsignore, 56, as the second woman and the first openly gay individual to lead the department.   “I have appointed Lillian to this role, not solely for her wealth of experience, not solely because of her vision and ideas for how we take the FDNY into its latest year of existence, but also because of the respect she holds for this work and all those who do it,” Mamdani gushed of his appointee.