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As mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio kicked off many of his mornings with a cross-borough odyssey by car. Boarding his private, chauffeured SUV at Gracie Mansion, police escort in tow, de Blasio would be driven about 12 miles to the Prospect Park YMCA \u2013 a roughly 35-minute drive that would have taken just shy of an hour by train.<\/p>\n

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Polly Trottenberg often sat shotgun in her city-issued car where she liked to control the music and sing along. What better way to alleviate stress as de Blasio\u2019s Department of Transportation commissioner? Sometimes her driver would join in, she said, the two belting out Frank Sinatra as one.<\/p>\n

Eric Adams, self-proclaimed mayor of swagger, kept a row of suits, collared shirts and ties strung along a clothing rack in the back seat of his black Chevrolet Suburban \u2013 his ride doubling as closet-on-wheels as he was whisked from flag raisings to press conferences to court appearances to dinner at Zero Bond.<\/p>\n

As a deputy mayor in the Adams administration, Adolfo Carri\u00f3n Jr. enjoyed traveling to City Hall from his home on City Island by ferry. But sometimes he had his driver meet him at the Wall Street ferry terminal to be driven the final leg of his journey.<\/p>\n

Passenger princess status, city government edition, is a less exclusive club than one might think. Fifty-two of Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s appointees travel in rarified, climate-controlled air, thanks to the full-time car and driver assigned to them, according to a list provided by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services in response to a freedom of information request from City & State.<\/p>\n

That includes obvious big shots like First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan, schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch \u2013 officials whose jobs frequently have them on the move. But it also includes lesser-known appointees like Fuleihan\u2019s chief of staff Freddi Goldstein, Chief Actuary Marek Tyszkiewicz and Housing Authority Chief Operating Officer Eva Trimble. Top mayoral press office officials like Joe Calvello and Anna Bahr also get their own chauffeured vehicles, as do the five other deputy mayors and more than two dozen commissioners.<\/p>\n

This system isn\u2019t unique to the Mamdani administration. While exact figures aren\u2019t available online, scores of officials working under prior mayors had their own cars and drivers, likely in roughly equal numbers. Car ownership is a politicized issue in New York, but the chauffeured life isn\u2019t partisan or ideological among the city\u2019s government officials. Borough presidents, the City Council speaker, comptroller and public advocate all have this perk.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes a huge difference if you are like I was, going seven days a week, all day, all night, across the whole borough,\u201d City Council Member Gale Brewer said of having a car and driver during her eight-year tenure as Manhattan borough president. \u201cI could not have done it any other way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, these chauffeured vehicles don\u2019t come with a 24\/7 all-access pass to the city. The states that cars are not supposed to be used \u201cfor personal reasons,\u201d though \u201cbrief stops for meals or other incidental activities\u201d are acceptable while performing normal work activities.<\/p>\n

But even with guardrails, getting driven around doesn\u2019t exactly foster relatability \u2013 especially if it\u2019s overly relied upon. Critics argue it\u2019s akin to traveling around in a bubble. Add it to the long list of things that already separate public officials from the many New Yorkers who travel by public transit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s perceived accessibility and pavement-pounding across the city were fixtures of his upstart mayoral campaign. He has tried not to stray from that since taking office.He has been spotted traveling by Citi Bike, train and on foot. The 34-year-old democratic socialist is acutely aware of how much his life has changed and how fixtures of his new reality \u2013 like the chauffeur and police detail \u2013 could easily alter his perception of the problems he\u2019s supposed to solve.<\/p>\n

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Zohran Mamdani hops on a Citi Bike \u2014 going back to his campaign office in Chelsea, his campaign tells me after. A woman heckles him, shouting \u201ccommunist!\u201d pic.twitter.com\/pNgkOeE8o3<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jeff Coltin (@JCColtin) October 8, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIf you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city,\u201d Mamdani said in an April interview with WBUR. By taking other modes of transportation, he said, \u201cYou actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s still relying on his car and driver virtually every day.<\/p>\n

And that can be a barrier. \u201cI still remember feeling just a shock at becoming aware after leaving that meal,\u201d Citizens Union Executive Director Grace Rauh said, reflecting on a dinner she shared with a deputy mayor as an early career journalist covering the Bloomberg administration two decades ago. \u201cThat realization that \u2018Oh, this person\u2019s meal with me is part of their workday, but they\u2019re going to get driven home and I\u2019m going to go walk to the subway.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Perk or necessity?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ask just about anybody who has had their own car and driver while serving in city government, and they\u2019ll give a strong defense in its favor: Good luck doing the job without one.<\/p>\n

Fabien Levy, who started in the Adams administration as press secretary and finished as deputy mayor for communications, said he\u2019d initially been skeptical about the arrangement. But while his gut reaction was to turn down his own chauffeured vehicle, the job\u2019s demands promptly dispelled him of any illusions that he could go without.<\/p>\n

One night after getting dropped off at home in Manhattan around 11 p.m., he received a call notifying him that a police officer had been shot \u2013 the latest in a string of officer shootings that rattled the city in early 2022. Having already sent his driver home, Levy took a cab to the crime scene, only to be stopped at the police line. It took ages to talk his way in.<\/p>\n

Taking the train isn\u2019t a great option for officials who need to be on their phones either, he argued. \u201cOur subway system has no cell service, so you can\u2019t take any calls. You can hardly send emails or text messages,\u201d Levy said. \u201cDepending on where you live, imagine being underground for an hour-plus and there\u2019s an emergency situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the handful of city officials with a police detail \u2013 the mayor, speaker, comptroller and police commissioner \u2013 there are real safety reasons for being driven around. Cops and personal aides typically ride alongside them in the vehicle, which is far simpler than flanking their charge on public transportation. How many times has a video of Mamdani riding a Citi Bike or striding down the train platform gone viral? \u201cHis security team must be stressed lol\u201d is a sentiment that frequently appears in those comment sections.<\/p>\n

The commenters are probably on to something.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just such a liability,\u201d said Mandela Jones, a former spokesperson for then-City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams. As one of the only speakers who lived outside of Manhattan, she would spend particularly long stretches on wheels as she traveled from her Southeast Queens home to City Hall. \u201cI remember we had her take the train once, and (her police detail) allowed it obviously, because they\u2019ll do whatever you tell them, but you know they were stressed the whole fucking time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The safety argument doesn\u2019t carry for the majority of officials who are assigned a car and driver. It\u2019s unlikely anyone is closely tracking the head of the School Construction Authority or the chief technology officer, for example. Most can easily take the train under the cloak of anonymity, and many do.<\/p>\n

Read more What Mamdani\u2019s Office of Community Safety does in the aftermath of tragedy<\/a><\/p>\n

But former and current officials who\u2019ve had their own chauffeur point to other benefits like efficiency. They worked frequently in the car, using the privacy to take calls, respond to emails, pour over documents and pound out press releases on their laptops.<\/p>\n

Looking to capitalize on long stretches of time on the road, Department of Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Tigani ordered a small drop-down desk to use in the back of his vehicle. \u201cIt has really helped and was fairly inexpensive,\u201d he said. \u201cI read and saw a bunch of people using it during the pandemic who work in different locations, so it sounded like a smart complement to do more detailed and comprehensive work when in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another benefit: Private vehicles come in handy for escaping and evading journalists. What better way to get the last word than to fire off a nasty barb and disappear into the safety of 3,000 pounds of metal? \u201cYou want a mint? You need one,\u201d Phil Banks, then-deputy mayor of public safety, told The City Reporter\u2019s Katie Honan in 2024 when she asked him about having his phone seized by FBI agents. He jumped into his car and didn\u2019t answer the question.<\/p>\n

And in the whirl of high-pressure situations and go, go, go<\/em>, it\u2019s nice to have someone to bounce ideas off \u2013 or even just to make sure you\u2019ve eaten or got home safely. Once, hospital-bound after the cab she was riding in got into an accident, Brewer called her driver for aid, not wanting to break the news to her husband. \u201cThey really look out for you,\u201d she said. \u201cIn many cases, they become friends because you\u2019re with them more than you\u2019re with family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tapping the brakes<\/strong><\/p>\n

For all the reasons it may be beneficial for high-ranking elected leaders and city officials to be chauffeured around, it\u2019s hard to imagine the arrangement not having some impact on their psyche. How could it not? In a car, you are locked in with maybe four people tops, all of whom work for you, subjected to traffic, sure, but moving through the city shielded from inclement weather, subway delays and fellow New Yorkers who might demand something of you. But on the train, bus or even walking on the street, you\u2019re part of a far more diverse array of commuters, taking in the same inconveniences, the same interactions, the same observations. (Of course, quite a few New Yorkers regularly travel by car \u2013 particularly in outer borough neighborhoods with limited public transportation \u2013 but this is still a far cry from the chauffeur life.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe very people that are able to separate themselves from the experience of everyday New Yorkers through a car and driver are the ones making policy decisions,\u201d Rauh said. \u201cAny mayoral administration should be very judicious about who gets access and why.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan Birchmeier, who served as Eric Adams\u2019 communications director, noted that the types of jobs that come with their own car and driver are already intense. For him, being chauffeured was just another thing in a \u201cvortex of incoming emails and the political problem of the day\u201d that made being grounded in reality challenging.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re on the phone all the time, you\u2019re on emails all the time,\u201d he said. \u201cMagically popping up in new locations is just one more iteration of getting sucked into this digital world.\u201d<\/p>\n

But several people argued that public officials actually see quite a lot in a car \u2013 things they wouldn\u2019t see underground that can inform their perspective on issues like disinvestment in neighborhoods and redlining.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe F or No. 5 (trains) might have no shortage of subterranean human sights, but they can\u2019t reveal the redlining of Allerton or Hillside avenues,\u201d said Amit Singh Bagga, who often drove himself while on the job in the de Blasio administration. \u201cYou\u2019ll need the light of day and a set of wheels for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cForever annoyed\u201d when she\u2019d spot litter or graffiti coming off a bridge or the highway, former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said she would often call in issues while being chauffeured that she likely wouldn\u2019t have seen otherwise.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s pros and cons,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cIf somebody is going to become in a bubble because part of the time they get driven, they are going to be in a bubble anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good-government groups urge caution. City officials\u2019 access to chauffeurs has erupted in scandal before. In 2006, then-Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum was forced to fork over several thousand dollars in repayments for using her driver for personal trips, like Hamptons visits and Costco runs. Concerns about reducing carbon emissions and the city\u2019s dependence on vehicles have stirred conversations about shrinking the city\u2019s fleet. With more than 30,000 vehicles, New York City has the largest municipal fleet in the nation. Environmental and bike advocates argue that\u2019s not a flex. Though in recent years, officials have started to get driven around in more hybrid and electric vehicles, including Toyota Highlanders and Ford Mustang Mach-E\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are also concerns about transparency. Asked for information about how much the city spends on drivers and city-owned vehicles for city officials, the FOIL office said that DCAS does not have the \u201cnecessary detailed agency time\/salary\/usage information that would be needed to report such a report.\u201d Not to mention City & State had to submit a FOIL request to get access to this list.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think when it starts to get to a level of where it\u2019s more a perk of the job, rather than a necessity, is where we would question the public policy benefits of extending more cars to the workforce,\u201d Reinvent Albany Senior Policy Adviser Rachael Fauss said.<\/p>\n

Of course, as with all perks and pitfalls of public service, the ride comes to an end eventually. Whether it\u2019s in eight years, or mere months, chauffeur access ends with the job. Mayor, press secretary, borough president, agency head alike, all eventually find themselves in the same place: picking up the pieces and readjusting to their old life.<\/p>\n

After 16 years of being chauffeured, former Manhattan Borough President and city Comptroller Scott Stringer recalled one of the first times he ordered an Uber. \u201cI said to the guy, \u2018Hey, this is my second Uber ride ever.\u2019 And he goes, \u2018Well, actually this is my first Uber ride in five years \u2013 I\u2019ve been suspended for five years and now I\u2019m back.\u2019 I go, \u2018What were you suspended for?\u2019\u201d Apparently, smoking pot while driving. \u201cAnd then I realized I am back in the real world,\u201d Stringer said.<\/p>\n

Some look back with nostalgia. Levy bid his driver farewell in Times Square, just after the clock struck midnight on New Year\u2019s Day, bringing the Adams administration to a close. Levy and his driver keep in touch, he said, but nothing like their daily contact before.<\/p>\n

For others, the return to the real world was like slipping on an old skin \u2013 or so they say. \u201cIt\u2019s all about keeping your perspective,\u201d Carri\u00f3n said. \u201cI went right back into being a normal, average joe in a hot minute when I walked out of City Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more NYPD inspector investigated in psych eval scandal getting promoted<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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