Resignation of four key NYC deputies unleashes repercussions for Adams

February 18, 2025 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

Former Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle

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CITY HALL — FOUR TOP DEPUTY MAYORS to Mayor Eric Adams, including First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, have submitted their resignations, and others have communicated their intent to resign, according to a statement issued Monday by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, The New York Times and other sources. Besides Torres-Springer, the departing deputy mayors include Meera Joshi, Anne Williams-Isom and Chauncey Parker, who oversee much of the city’s government.

The officials — like numerous top Southern District of New York prosecutors last week — resigned after the federal Justice Department demanded the SDNY dismiss Adams’ corruption case, claiming that the legal proceedings would interfere with Adams’ ability to comply with President Trump’s deportation mandate, as well as his campaign for the upcoming mayoral election. The mayor has repeatedly urged New Yorkers to put the episode behind them and has resisted demands, including from Speaker Adrienne Adams and other elected officials, that he step down.

On Monday, Lander, citing increasing instability, threatened to convene a meeting of the Committee of Mayoral Inability. In a letter, he formally requested that Adams “promptly develop and present a detailed contingency plan” no later than this Friday, Feb. 21. “In the absence of a contingency plan, the resignation of four or more deputy mayors, and the chaos created by the Justice Department’s actions regarding indictments against you, may well constitute inability to govern,“ Lander wrote.

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