De Blasio appoints MIT professor as deputy mayor
(New York Post Local News)

Mayor de Blasio on Thursday appointed a former colleague who worked with him in the Dinkins administration in the early ´90s as deputy mayor for strategic initiatives. J. Phillip Thompson, who has been teaching at MIT since 2002, will take over for outgoing Deputy Mayor Richard Buery next month. Buery was responsible for coordinating large-scale...