Barely two months after she surprised the political world as a first-time candidate by running a strong second behind Eric Adams in the Democratic mayoral primary, Kathryn Garcia is returning to her area of expertise, though in a slightly different venue: serving as Governor Hochul's Director of State Operations.
The job places Ms. Garcia in charge of all state agencies and makes her executive liaison to the Port Authority. It's a wider span of control than she had over more than a decade in city government, but she shined in positions including Sanitation Commissioner, acting head of the Housing Authority, Mayor de Blasio's food czar in the early days of the pandemic, and as a top Department of Environmental Protection official under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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