New York Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker submitted his resignation Wednesday, a day after Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the election for New York City mayor.

Mayor Eric Adams will appoint an interim commissioner, whom the mayor-elect will either keep on or replace with his own pick.

New York Mayor Eric Adams will be leaving office in January with a string of memorable anecdotes, late-night club visits, an unusually hefty bag of achievements on the housing front, and the giant black mark of a corruption scandal that never saw its day in court in his municipal wake.

Andrew Cuomo conceded the New York mayoral election to Zohran Mamdani as crowd booed. Niki Gunter. More Videos. Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayor's race