Mamdani’s new nightlife director is former NYC-DSA leader who built his first campaign website

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a former leader of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America to oversee the city's nightlife industry, putting a longtime political ally and regular clubgoer in charge of an office that works with bars, nightclubs and nightlife workers across the five boroughs. Eric Thor, an Astoria resident who served as co-chair of NYC-DSA from 2023 to 2024, was named executive director of the Office of Nightlife on Friday and succeeds Jeffrey Garcia, a former NYPD detective and hospitality industry veteran appointed by former Mayor Eric Adams in November 2023. The appointment brings another figure into the administration with ties to the socialist organization that helped propel Mamdani to City Hall. Other NYC-DSA members in Mamdani's administration include Cea Weaver, who leads the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants, and Tascha Van Auken, who oversaw his mayoral campaign's field operation and now heads the Mayor's Office of Mass Engagement.

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