Mayor Eric Adams’ latest pick for deputy mayor for operations still lives in Westchester and was running for a county seat as recently as February, records show, although it’s required to be a New York City resident to have the job.
Jeffrey Roth, who has worked for the city’s Department of Veterans Services and the fire department and also served in Army National Guard, announced Feb. 20 that he planned to run for a seat on the Westchester County Board of Legislators, district one.
The seat represents Cortland, Yorktown and Peekskill, where voter and other records show Roth still lives.
He told the Peekskill Herald last month that he moved to the Westchester city in 2021.
“I’m running because our community deserves leadership that listens, takes action, and delivers real results,” Roth said in a press release in February.
Under a 2010 executive order, anyone holding the job of deputy mayor “shall be a resident of the City on the date that he or she assumes such title or shall establish City residence within ninety days after such date and shall thereafter maintain City residence for as long as he or she serves in such title.”
When asked about his primary residence Friday morning, Adams spokesperson Kayla Mamelak said he had a home in Brooklyn — but wouldn’t say which one was primary.
“Successful people sometimes have more than one property,” she told THE CITY in a text. “He has a residence in BK which, as you know, is in NYC.”
A call and text message sent to Roth Friday morning were not returned.
He is replacing Meera Joshi as deputy mayor for operations.
She and three other top Adams officials — First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom, and Deputy Mayor for Public safety Chauncey Parker — announced last month they were stepping down following the federal Department of Justice memo urging Adams’ federal corruption charges be dropped.
He will begin his job at the close of business on Friday, March 14, the mayor’s office announced, along with newly-appointed deputy mayors Adolfo Carrión (housing and economic policy) and Suzanne Miles-Gustave (health and human services).
Kaz Daughtry, who will be the deputy mayor for public safety — a role Adams created — will start his job at the end of Friday.
Kaz Daughtry speaks at City Hall about enforcing vendor regulations, Nov. 6, 2024. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY
He is currently the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of operations and a longtime Adams loyalist who was promoted six ranks to assistant commissioner last year as the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board was investigating three misconduct complaints against him, THE CITY reported.
The board later dropped the complaints because Daughtry’s new role, a civilian position, was outside their jurisdiction.
Roth spent years working in city government, including a stint at the Taxi and Limousine Commission, and was nominated in 2019 by then-Mayor Bill de Blasio to serve as its chair. His bid was withdrawn, though, after an “awful” hearing in the City Council.
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