Themayor of New York City is thechief executive of theGovernment of New York City, as stipulated by New York City's charter. The current officeholder, the 110th in the sequence of regular mayors, isEric Adams, a member of theDemocratic Party. The mayor-elect isZohran Mamdani, also a Democrat, who will be sworn in on January 1, 2026.

During the Dutch colonial period from 1624 to 1664,New Amsterdam was governed by theDirector of New Netherland. Following the 1664 creation of the BritishProvince of New York, newly renamed New York City was run by the British military governor,Richard Nicolls. The office of Mayor of New York City was established in 1665. Holders were appointed by colonial governors, beginning withThomas Willett. The position remained appointed until 1777. That year, during theAmerican Revolution, aCouncil of Appointment was formed by theState ofNew York. In 1821 theNew York City Council – then known as the Common Council – began appointing mayors. Since 1834,mayors have been elected by direct popular vote.^[1]

The city included little beyond the island of Manhattan before 1874, when it annexedthe western part of the Bronx, to be followed in 1895 by the rest of the Bronx. The1898 consolidation created the city as it is today withfive boroughs:Queens,Brooklyn,Manhattan,Staten Island andthe Bronx. The first mayor of the expanded city wasRobert Anderson Van Wyck.

The longest-serving mayors have beenFiorello H. La Guardia (1934–1945),Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1954–1965),Ed Koch (1978–1989) andMichael Bloomberg (2002–2013), each of whom was in office for twelve years (three successive four-year terms). The shortest terms in office since 1834 have been those of acting mayors:William T. Collins served a single day on December 31, 1925,Samuel B. H. Vance served one month (from November 30 to December 31, 1874), andThomas Coman served five weeks (from Monday, November 30, 1868, to Monday, January 4, 1869).

Before 1680, mayors served one-year terms. From 1680, they served two-year terms. Exceptions are noted thus (*). A dagger (†) indicates mayoralties cut short by death in office.

Note

1. Peter Delanoy was the first and only directly-elected mayor of New York^[3] until 1834. Appointed mayors resumed in the wake ofLeisler's Rebellion.

†died in office

The mayor continued to be selected by theGovernment of New York'sCouncil of Appointment until 1821, whenStephen Allen became the first mayor appointed by a localCommon Council. Under the Charter of 1834, mayors were elected annually by direct popular vote. Starting in 1849, mayors were elected to serve two-year terms.

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term	Party		Election	Previous office
44		James Duane (1733–1797)	January 1, 1784 – 1789		Unaffiliated	–	Member of theCongress of the Confederation fromNew York (1781–1783)
45		Richard Varick (1753–1831)	October 12, 1789 – December 31, 1801		Federalist	–	2ndAttorney General ofNew York (1788–1789)
46		Edward Livingston (1764–1836)	1801 – 1803		Democratic-Republican	–	Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew York's 2nd district (1795–1801)
47		DeWitt Clinton (1769–1828) 1st term	1803 – 1807		Democratic-Republican	–	United States Senator fromNew York (1802–1803)
48		Marinus Willett (1740–1830)	1807 – 1808		Democratic-Republican[4]	–	Sheriff ofNew York County (1784–1787; 1791–1795)
49		DeWitt Clinton (1769–1828) 2nd term	1808 – 1810		Democratic-Republican	–	47thMayor ofNew York City (1803–1807)
50		Jacob Radcliff (1764–1844) 1st term	February 13, 1810 – 1811		Federalist	–	Justice of theNew York Supreme Court (1798–1804)
51		DeWitt Clinton (1769–1828) 3rd term	1811 – 1815		Democratic-Republican	–	47th & 49thMayor ofNew York City (1803–1807; 1808–1810)
52		John Ferguson (c. 1777–1832)	March 6, 1815 – July 9, 1815		Democratic-Republican	–	Naval Officer of thePort of New York (1813–1832)
53		Jacob Radcliff (1764–1844) 2nd term	July 10, 1815 – 1818		Federalist	–	50thMayor ofNew York City (1810–1811)
54		Cadwallader D. Colden (1769–1834)	1818 – 1821		Federalist	–	Member of theNew York State Assembly from the1st district (1818)
55		Stephen Allen (1767–1852)	1821 – 1824		Federalist	–	Assistant alderman of theNew York City Common Council from the 10th ward (1817–1821)
56		William Paulding Jr. (1770–1854) 1st term	1825 – 1826		Democratic-Republican	–	Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew York's 2nd district (1811–1813)
57		Philip Hone (1780–1851)	1826 – 1827		Federalist	–	President of theDelaware and Hudson Canal Company (1825–1826)
58		William Paulding Jr. (1770–1854) 2nd term	1827 – 1829		Democratic-Republican	–	56thMayor ofNew York City (1825–1826)
59		Walter Bowne (1770–1846)	1829 – 1833		Democratic	–	Member of theNew York State Senate from the1st district (1823–1824)
60		Gideon Lee (1778–1841)	1833 – 1834		Democratic	–	Member of theNew York City Board of Aldermen (1828–1830)
61		Cornelius Lawrence (1791–1861)	1834 – 1837		Democratic	1834 1835 1836	Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew York's 3rd district (1833–1834)
62		Aaron Clark (1787–1861)	1837 – 1839		Whig	1837 1838	Member of theNew York City Board of Aldermen from the 1st ward (1835–1837)
63		Isaac L. Varian (1793–1864)	1839 – 1841		Democratic	1839 1840	Member of theNew York State Senate fromNew York County (1831–1833)
64		Robert H. Morris (1808–1855)	1841 – 1844		Democratic	1841 1842 1843	18thRecorder of New York City (1838–1841)
65		James Harper (1795–1869)	1844 – 1845		American Republican	1844	Owner ofHarper & Brothers
66		William Frederick Havemeyer (1804–1874) 1st term	1845 – 1846		Democratic	1845	Presidential elector fromNew York (1844)
67		Andrew H. Mickle (1805–1863)	1846 – 1847		Democratic	1846	Owner of A. H. Mickle & Sons
68		William V. Brady (1811–1870)	1847 – 1848		Whig	1847	Member of theNew York City Board of Aldermen (1842–1847)
69		William Frederick Havemeyer (1804–1874) 2nd term	1848 – 1849		Democratic	1848	66thMayor ofNew York City (1845–1846)
70		Caleb Smith Woodhull (1792–1866)	1849 – 1851		Whig	1849	President of theNew York City Board of Aldermen (1843)
71		Ambrose Kingsland (1804–1878)	1851 – 1853		Whig	1850	Commissioner of theCroton Aqueduct (1848)
72		Jacob Aaron Westervelt (1800–1879)	1853 – 1855		Democratic	1852	Member of theNew York City Board of Aldermen from the 13th ward (1840–1842)
73		Fernando Wood (1812–1881) 1st term	January 1, 1855 – December 31, 1857		Democratic	1854 1856	Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew York's 3rd district (1841–1843)
74		Daniel F. Tiemann (1805–1899)	1858 – 1860		Unaffiliated[5][6][7]	1857	Owner of D. F. Tiemann & Company Paint & Color Works
75		Fernando Wood (1812–1881) 2nd term	January 1, 1860 – December 31, 1861		Democratic	1859	73rdMayor ofNew York City (1855–1857)
76		George Opdyke (1805–1880)	1862 – 1864		Republican	1861	Member of theNew York State Assembly from the14th district (1859)
77		Charles Godfrey Gunther (1822–1885)	1864 – 1866		Democratic	1863
78		John T. Hoffman1 (1828–1888)	1866 – November 30, 1868		Democratic	1865	25thRecorder of New York City (1861–1866)
Acting		Thomas Coman1 (1836–1909)	November 30, 1868 – January 4, 1869		Democratic	–	President of theNew York City Board of Aldermen (1868–1871)
79		A. Oakey Hall2 (1826–1898)	January 4, 1869 – December 31, 1872		Democratic	1868	District Attorney ofNew York County (1855–1858; 1862–1871)
80		William Frederick Havemeyer3 † (1804–1874) 3rd term	January 1, 1873 – November 30, 1874		Republican	1872	President of theBank of North America (1851–1861)
Acting		Samuel B. H. Vance3 (1814–1890)	November 30, 1874 – December 31, 1874		Republican	–	President of theNew York City Board of Aldermen (1873–1874)
81		William H. Wickham (1832–1893)	January 1, 1875 – December 31, 1876		Democratic	1874	President of theNew York City Fire Department (1860–1861)
82		Smith Ely Jr. (1825–1911)	January 1, 1877 – December 31, 1878		Democratic	1876	Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew York's 7th district (1871–1873; 1875–1876)
83		Edward Cooper (1824–1905)	January 1, 1879 – December 31, 1880		Democratic	1878
84		William Russell Grace (1832–1904) 1st term	January 1, 1881 – December 31, 1882		Democratic	1880	Owner ofW. R. Grace and Company
85		Franklin Edson (1832–1904)	January 1, 1883 – December 31, 1884		Democratic	1882	President of theNew York Produce Exchange
86		William Russell Grace (1832–1904) 2nd term	January 1, 1885 – December 31, 1886		Unaffiliated	1884	84thMayor ofNew York City (1881–1882)
87		Abram Hewitt (1822–1903)	January 1, 1887 – December 31, 1888		Democratic	1886	Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew York's 10th district (1875–1879; 1881–1886)
88		Hugh J. Grant (1858–1910)	January 1, 1889 – December 31, 1892		Democratic	1888 1890	Sheriff ofNew York County (1887–1888)
89		Thomas Francis Gilroy (1840–1911)	January 1, 1893 – December 31, 1894		Democratic	1892	Undersheriff ofNew York County
90		William Lafayette Strong4 (1827–1900)	January 1, 1895 – December 31, 1897		Republican	1894	President of the First National Bank

Notes

1. John T. Hoffman resigned after his election asGovernor of New York state but before the end of his mayoral term.^[8]Thomas Coman, President of the Board of Aldermen, completed Hoffman's term as acting mayor until his elected successor,A. Oakey Hall, took office.^[9]
2. When Hall temporarily retired during the Tweed investigation, the Acting Mayor of New York City wasJohn Cochrane, the President of theNew York City Council.
3. William F. Havemeyer died during his last term of office.Samuel B. H. Vance, President of the Board of Aldermen, completed Havemeyer's term as acting mayor until his elected successor,William H. Wickham, took office.
4. William L. Strong served an additional year in office because New York City mayoral elections were changed to be held in odd-numbered years due to the impending consolidation of New York City.

†died in office

The 1898–1901 term was for four years. The City Charter was changed to make the mayor's term a two-year one beginning in 1902, but after two such terms was changed back to resume four-year terms in 1906.George B. McClellan Jr. thus served one two-year term from 1904 to 1905, during which he was elected to a four-year term from 1906 to 1909. Since then, mayors have had to be elected with the support of all five boroughs: Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx.

The party of the mayor reflects party registration, as opposed to the party lines run under during the general election.

No.	Photo	Name (Birth–Death)	Term	Party		Election	Previous office
91		Robert Anderson Van Wyck1 (1849–1918)	January 1, 1898 – December 31, 1901		Democratic	1897	Chief Justice of the City Court of New York[10]
92		Seth Low2 (1850–1916)	January 1, 1902 – December 31, 1903		Republican	1901	11thPresident ofColumbia University (1890–1901)
93		George B. McClellan Jr. (1865–1940)	January 1, 1904 – December 31, 1909		Democratic	1903 1905	Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew York's 12th district (1895–1903)
94		William Jay Gaynor3 † (1849–1913)	January 1, 1910 – September 10, 1913		Democratic	1909	Justice of theNew York Supreme Court (1893–1909)
Acting3		Ardolph L. Kline (1858–1930)	September 10, 1913 – December 31, 1913		Republican	–	President of theNew York City Board of Aldermen (1913)
95		John Purroy Mitchel (1879–1918)	January 1, 1914 – December 31, 1917		Republican	1913	Collector of the Port of New York (1913)
96		John Francis Hylan4[11] (1868–1936)	January 1, 1918 – December 30, 1925		Democratic	1917 1921	Judge inKings County[12]
Acting4		William T. Collins (1886–1961)	December 31, 1925[11]		Democratic	–	President of theNew York City Board of Aldermen[11] (1925)
97		Jimmy Walker5 (1881–1946)	January 1, 1926 – September 1, 1932		Democratic	1925 1929	Member of theNew York State Senate from the12th district (1919–1925)
Acting5		Joseph V. McKee (1889–1956)	September 1, 1932 – December 31, 1932		Democratic	–	President of theNew York City Board of Aldermen (1926–1933)
98		John P. O'Brien (1873–1951)	January 1, 1933 – December 31, 1933		Democratic	1932	Surrogate ofNew York County[13]
99		Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947)	January 1, 1934 – December 31, 1945		Republican[14]	1933 1937 1941	Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew York's 20th district (1923–1933)
100		William O'Dwyer6 (1890–1964)	January 1, 1946 – August 31, 1950		Democratic	1945 1949	District Attorney ofKings County (1940–1942; 1945)
101		Vincent R. Impellitteri6 (1900–1987)	November 14, 1950 – December 31, 1953 (acting from August 31, 1950)		Democratic	1950	President of theNew York City Council (1946–1950)
102		Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1910–1991)	January 1, 1954 – December 31, 1965		Democratic	1953 1957 1961	17thBorough President ofManhattan (1950–1953)
103		John Lindsay (1921–2000)	January 1, 1966 – December 31, 1973		Republican8 Democratic	1965 1969	Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew York's 17th district (1959–1965)
104		Abraham Beame (1906–2001)	January 1, 1974 – December 31, 1977		Democratic	1973	36th & 38thNew York City Comptroller (1962–1965; 1970–1973)
105		Ed Koch (1924–2013)	January 1, 1978 – December 31, 1989		Democratic	1977 1981 1985	Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew York's 18th district (1969–1977)
106		David Dinkins (1927–2020)	January 1, 1990 – December 31, 1993		Democratic	1989	23rdBorough President ofManhattan (1986–1989)
107		Rudy Giuliani (b. 1944)	January 1, 1994 – December 31, 2001		Republican	1993 1997	U.S. Attorney for theSouthern District of New York (1983–1989)
108		Michael Bloomberg (b. 1942)	January 1, 2002 – December 31, 2013		Republican9 Unaffiliated	2001 2005 2009	CEO ofBloomberg L.P. (1981–2001)
109		Bill de Blasio (b. 1961)	January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2021		Democratic	2013 2017	3rdNew York City Public Advocate (2010–2013)
110		Eric Adams (b. 1960)	January 1, 2022 – Incumbent		Democratic	2021	18thBorough President ofBrooklyn (2014–2021)

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term	Party		Election	Previous office
111		Zohran Mamdani (b. 1991)	To be sworn in on January 1, 2026		Democratic	2025	Member of theNew York State Assembly from the36th district (2021–present)

Notes

1. Randolph Gugghenheimer I (born 1846) served as acting mayor in 1900 while Robert A. Van Wyck was away.^[15][16]
2. Seth Low previously served as Mayor of theCity of Brooklyn from 1882 to 1885.
3. William Jay Gaynor died September 10, 1913.Ardolph L. Kline, the unelectedPresident of the Board of Aldermen, succeeded as acting mayor upon Gaynor's death, but then sought re-election as an alderman (successfully) rather than election as mayor. Kline has thus been the only mayor since 1834 never to win a citywide election (having been appointed Vice President of the Board of Aldermen by his colleagues and then succeeding to the presidency mid-term, rather than winning it by popular election at large).
4. John Hylan and Police CommissionerRichard Enright resigned December 30, 1925 to ensure that they received their city pensions, which they may not have been entitled to keep had they stayed in office for one more day.William T. Collins became acting Mayor for one day, prior to the inauguration ofJimmy Walker.^[11]
5. Jimmy Walker resigned September 1, 1932 and went to Europe, amid allegations of corruption in his administration.Joseph V. McKee, as President of the Board of Aldermen, became acting mayor in Walker's place, but was then defeated in a special election byJohn P. O'Brien.
6. William O'Dwyer resigned August 31, 1950, during a police corruption scandal, after which he was appointed Ambassador toMexico by PresidentHarry S. Truman.
7. Vincent R. Impellitteri, President of theNew York City Council, became acting mayor when O'Dwyer resigned on August 31, 1950, and was then elected to the office in a special election held on November 7, 1950. He was inaugurated on November 14.
8. John Lindsay switched party affiliation from Republican to Democratic in 1971 and ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for president in1972.^[17]
9. Michael Bloomberg was a lifelong Democrat before registering as a Republican in 2001 and running for mayor. He then registered as an Independent in 2007, and re-registered as a Democrat in 2018 in preparation for his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for president in2020.^[18]

†died in office

There are three living former mayors and one outgoing mayor.

Direct elections to the mayoralty of the unconsolidated City of New York began in 1834 for a term of one year, extended to two years after 1849. The 1897 Charter of the consolidated City stipulated that the mayor was to be elected for a single four-year term. In 1901, the term halved to two years, with no restrictions on reelection. In 1905, the term was extended to four years once again. (MayorsFiorello La Guardia,Robert F. Wagner Jr.,Ed Koch andMichael Bloomberg were later able to serve for twelve years each.)^[19] In 1993, the voters approved a two-term (eight-year) limit, and reconfirmed this limit when the issue was submitted to referendum in 1996. In 2008, theNew York City Council voted to change the two-term limit to three terms (without submitting the issue to the voters).^[20] Legal challenges to the Council's action were rejected by Federal courts in January and April 2009.^[21] However, in 2010, yet another referendum, reverting the limit to two terms, passed overwhelmingly.^[22]

Principal source:The Encyclopedia of New York City^[23] especially the entries for "charter" and "mayoralty".

1. Mayor Strong, elected in 1894, served an extra year because no municipal election was held in 1896, in anticipation of the consolidated City's switch to odd-year elections.
2. George B. McClellan Jr. was elected to one two-year term (1904–1906) and one four-year term (1906-1910).
3. David Dinkins was not affected by the term limit enacted in 1993 because he had served only one term by 1993 and failed to win re-election.
4. TheSeptember 11 attacks on theWorld Trade Center in Manhattan coincided with the primary elections for a successor to Mayor Giuliani, who was completing his second and final term of office. Many were so impressed by both the urgency of the situation and Giuliani's response that they wanted to keep him in office beyond December 31, 2001, either by removing the term limit or by extending his service for a few months.^[24] However, neither happened, the primary elections (with the same candidates) were re-run on September 25, the general election was held as scheduled on November 6, andMichael Bloomberg took office on the regularly appointed date of January 1, 2002.
5. On October 2, 2008, Michael Bloomberg announced that he would ask the city council to extend the limit for mayor, council and other officers from two terms to three, and that, should such an extended limit prevail, he himself would seek re-election as mayor.^[25] On October 23, theNew York City Council voted 29–22 to extend the two-term limit to three terms. (A proposed amendment to submit the vote to a public referendum had failed earlier the same day by a vote of 22–28 with one abstention.)^[20]
6. In November 2010, yet another popular referendum, limiting mayoral terms to two, passed overwhelmingly.^[22]

MayorsJohn T. Hoffman (1866–1868, elected Governor 1868),William Havemeyer (1845–1846, 1848–1849, and 1873–1874),William Jay Gaynor (1910–1913),John Francis Hylan (1918–1925),Jimmy Walker (1926–1932), andWilliam O'Dwyer (1946–1950) failed to complete the final terms to which they were elected. The uncompleted mayoral terms of Hoffman, Walker, and O'Dwyer were added to the other offices elected in (respectively) 1868,1932, and1950. Those three elections are listed as "special" in the table below because they occurred before the next regularly scheduledmayoral election; the "regular" mayoral elections of 1874 and 1913, on the other hand, were held on the same day that they would have happened had the mayoralty not become vacant.

† Became acting mayor as the president of the board of aldermen or (in 1950) city council.

(D) = (Democratic)

(R) = (Republican)

1. Mayor Havemeyer was a Democrat who ran as a Republican against the DemocraticTweed Ring in 1872.
2. Acting Mayors Coman, Vance, Kline and Collins did not seek election as mayor.
3. Acting Mayors McKee and Impellitteri were Democrats who lost the Democratic primary to succeed themselves, but still ran in the general election as independents.
4. Elected Mayor Oakey Hall won re-election, while Mayor Wickham did not seek it. Mayors Mitchel and O'Brien lost attempts at re-election, while Mayor Impellitteri did not run for a full term in the 1953 regular general election after losing the Democratic primary.

Brooklyn elected amayor from 1834 until consolidation in 1898 into theCity of Greater New York, whose own secondmayor (1902–1903),Seth Low, had beenMayor ofBrooklyn from 1882 to 1885. Since 1898,Brooklyn has, in place of a separatemayor, elected aBorough President.

Long Island City, now within the Borough ofQueens, was incorporated as a city in its own right on May 4, 1870 and (like the City of Brooklyn) consolidated into the presentGreater New York City on January 1, 1898.

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