Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani responded to Musk and defended his choice: "Experience does matter, which is why I appointed the person who spent more than 30 years at EMS."

This isn’t the first time Musk, who is not a resident of New York, has weighed in on Mamdani or his campaign.

A spokesperson for the mayor said the timing was not intended to overshadow Mamdani’s announcement just minutes later.

New York City Mayor -elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed retired Fire Department of New York veteran Lillian Bonsignore as the city’s next FDNY commissioner.

News 4 has learned Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will select longtime FDNY vet Lillian Bonsignore to run the city’s fire department.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Firefighters spent about an hour battling a Friday night Great Kills garage fire in frigid temperatures. According to a department spokesperson, the FDNY received a report of a fire at 97 Driggs St. at around 6:56 p.m.

It took firefighters about two hours to get the fire in Queens under control, officials said. How to watch this week's Sunday Night Football game between the Chicago Bears and the San Francisco 49ers. The bark of the 'Mexican skin tree' is known for its regenerative properties. Whittingham recently announced he was leaving Utah after 21 seasons.

Thirteen elderly New Yorkers have died following fires this winter over a deadly six-week span in a continuing trend FDNY officials called, “very, very concerning.” The spike in fire deaths among the city’s senior citizens included a 95-year-old Queens grandmother who died along with her great granddaughter,