MAYOR ADAMS ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL KEY APPOINTMENTS TO CITY HALL TEAM

 

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the appointments of Mir Bashar, Crystal Price, and Alexandra Silver to his City Hall leadership team. Bashar serves as chief administrative officer and is responsible for the day-to-day finances, budgets, contracts, and general administration of City Hall. Price serves as director of Federal Legislative Affairs and pushes the advancement of the federal priorities for each citywide agency. Silver serves as director of the Mayor’s Office of Animal Welfare and is a dedicated liaison between City Hall and the animal advocacy community, in addition to working to promote a vision for a fairer city for animal welfare.

 

“As we work to take our city to new heights, we need people who are committed to all New Yorkers and will fight to support and protect their interests,” said Mayor Adams. “I am proud to announce Mir, Crystal, and Alexandra to these key appointments on my team, confirming my administration’s wide breadth of tremendously talented public servants working to ‘Get Stuff Done’ for the people of this city.”

 

“This administration continues to build a cabinet of diverse and talented New Yorkers who are committed to the people of this city and we are incredibly proud to welcome Mir, Crystal and Alexandra to City Hall,” said Chief of Staff Frank Carone. “With this team, we will ensure that our work will have the best impact that will reflect the needs of all New Yorkers.”

 

About Mir Bashar

Mir Bashar currently serves as the chief administrative officer in the Office of the Mayor. Bashar has a significant role in the day-to-day finances, budgets, contracts, and general administration of City Hall. He is also responsible for streamlining processes and finding efficiencies while maintaining financial controls. 

 

Prior to his current role, Bashar was the senior director of Budget and Financial Planning in 2015, helping City Hall agency heads strategize to meet their vision and goals. Bashar has also led an impressive career as a public administrator, budget, and procurement professional for 25 years while working in New York City government. 

 

Bashar graduated with a Master of Public Administration focused on Public Administration from Long Island University. 

 

Bashar reports directly to Chief of Staff Frank Carone. 

 

About Crystal Price 

Crystal Price currently serves as director of Federal Legislative Affairs. Price manages the advancement of federal priorities for each citywide agency. 

 

Before joining the Adams administration, Price served as a deputy director of Federal Legislative Affairs in the de Blasio administration, overseeing New York City’s arts, entertainment, economic development, health, housing, infrastructure, and transportation portfolios. Price was also critical to procuring millions of dollars in federal grant funding for vital citywide capital repair projects and developing and implementing advocacy strategies to advance and protect the city’s federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

 

Price is a lifelong New Yorker, who received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of the District of Columbia. 

 

Price serves on the Intergovernmental Affairs team under Chief of Staff Frank Carone. 

 

About Alexandra Silver 

Alexandra Silver currently serves as the director of the Mayor’s Office of Animal Welfare. 

 

Previously, Silver served as a community outreach & engagement manager at Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC), the city’s animal shelter provider. For 10 years, Silver connected with other organizations, stakeholders, and elected officials, working to raise awareness about how all New Yorkers can make a difference for animals. Her experience there afforded her perspective on the breadth of animal issues in New York City. 

 

Passionate about animal welfare since childhood and a vegan since 2016, she shares her home with cats Lucas and Freddie Mercury, both adopted from ACC’s Manhattan center, as well as the occasional foster animal. 

 

Silver received her Bachelor of Arts degree in comparative literature from Princeton University. 

 

Silver reports directly to Community Affairs Unit Commissioner Fred Kreizman.

Governor Hochul Updates New Yorkers on State's Progress Combating COVID-19 - JULY 15, 202

 Governor Encourages New Yorkers to Keep Using the Tools to Protect Against and Treat COVID-19: Vaccines, Boosters, Testing, and Treatment

20 Statewide Deaths Reported Yesterday

 NOTE: Beginning June 24, 2022, the Vaccine data will be updated weekly on Fridays to align with CDC's updated data refresh schedule. For additional information on COVID-19 Vaccination Data provided by CDC, see https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-total-admin-rate-total.   

NOTE: Updates to the CDC's cumulative death data files are being delayed, as the CDC upgrades its system. Any questions about this should be directed to the CDC. During this time, total deaths and new daily deaths reported through HERDS will continue as normal. 

Governor Kathy Hochul today updated New Yorkers on the state's progress combating COVID-19. 

"New Yorkers have worked hard to keep each other safe from COVID-19, but with new variants spreading throughout the state, we must maintain remain vigilant in using the tools," Governor Hochul said. "Stay up to date on your vaccine and booster doses, and talk to your child's pediatrician about getting them vaccinated as soon as possible. If you're traveling or feel unwell, get tested, and if you do test positive, consult your doctor about treatment options." 

Today's data is summarized briefly below: 

• Cases Per 100k - 41.44
• 7-Day Average Cases Per 100k - 36.84
• Test Results Reported - 88,497
• Total Positive - 8,098
• Percent Positive - 8.53%**
• 7-Day Average Percent Positive - 8.99%
• Patient Hospitalization - 2,458 (-2)
• Patients Newly Admitted - 437
• Patients in ICU - 237 (+4)
• Patients in ICU with Intubation - 79 (+9)
• Total Discharges - 320,449 (+416)
• New deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS - 20
• Total deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS - 56,760

** Due to the test reporting policy change by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and several other factors, the most reliable metric to measure virus impact on a community is the case per 100,000 data -- not percent positivity.

The Health Electronic Response Data System is a NYS DOH data source that collects confirmed daily death data as reported by hospitals, nursing homes and adult care facilities only.

Important Note: Effective Monday, April 4, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is no longer requiring testing facilities that use COVID-19 rapid antigen tests to report negative results. As a result, New York State's percent positive metric will be computed using only lab-reported PCR results. Positive antigen tests will still be reported to New York State and reporting of new daily cases and cases per 100k will continue to include both PCR and antigen tests. Due to this change and other factors, including changes in testing practices, the most reliable metric to measure virus impact on a community is the case per 100,000 data -- not percent positivity.

• Total deaths reported to and compiled by the CDC - 72,417

This dailyCOVID-19 provisional death certificate data reported by NYS DOH and NYC to the CDC includes those who died in any location, including hospitals, nursing homes, adult care facilities, at home, in hospice and other settings.

NOTE: Vaccine data is now updated weekly on Fridays to align with CDC's updated data refresh schedule. For additional information on COVID-19 Vaccination Data provided by CDC, see https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-total-admin-rate-total. 

• Total vaccine doses administered- 39,531,669
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 24 hours- 18,490
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 7 days- 91,137
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose- 92.9%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series- 84.3%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose (CDC)- 95.0%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series (CDC)- 87.9%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 12-17 with at least one vaccine dose (CDC)- 84.6%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 12-17 with completed vaccine series (CDC)- 74.3%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose- 82.6%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series- 74.8%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose (CDC)- 91.3%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series (CDC)- 77.9%

Each New York City borough's 7-day average percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows **:

Borough	Tuesday, July 12, 2022	Wednesday, July 13, 2022	Thursday, July 14, 2022
Bronx	9.54%	9.13%	8.98%
Kings	8.63%	8.53%	8.37%
New York	8.83%	8.22%	8.07%
Queens	10.88%	10.77%	10.94%
Richmond	10.24%	9.45%	9.44%