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Mamdani picked a street-redesign legend for the MTA board to deliver free buses. He controls 4 of its 17 votes

Mamdani picked a street-redesign legend for the MTA board. He controls 4 of its 17 votes.

By Bushwick Daily News Desk

June 2, 2026 · 3 min read

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Mamdani picked a street-redesign legend for the MTA board to deliver free buses. He controls 4 of its 17 votes

Mamdani picked a street-redesign legend for the MTA board. He controls 4 of its 17 votes.

· 3 min read
Mamdani picked a street-redesign legend for the MTA board to deliver free buses. He controls 4 of its 17 votes
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants fast, free buses, and his newest move tells you he is serious about it. On June 2 he recommended Janette Sadik-Khan and Melanie Hartzog to fill two vacancies on the MTA board, the body that actually runs the subways and buses. The catch is the part that does not make the press release: the mayor only gets to recommend four of the board’s seventeen voting seats, and Albany controls the rest.

Start with the pick everyone noticed. Sadik-Khan ran the city’s Department of Transportation under Mayor Michael Bloomberg from 2007 to 2013 and is now an adviser at Bloomberg Associates. To…

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