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Bronx Borough President. On November 2nd, 2021, Vanessa L. Gibson was elected to be the 14th Bronx Borough President to serve the over 1.4 million residents and families that call the Bronx home. A native New Yorker, Ms. Gibson began her career serving the people of the west Bronx.
Before 1874, when it annexed part of the Bronx, New York City was the same as the present Borough of Manhattan. For New York's mayors before 1898, see List of mayors of New York City. The Bronx. Brooklyn. Queens. Richmond/Staten Island. The Borough of Richmond was renamed the Borough of Staten Island in 1975.
#Borough PresidentPartyDates In Office27Mark Levine (born 1969)DemocraticJanuary 1, 2022– current26Gale Brewer (born 1951)DemocraticJanuary 1, 2014– December 31, 202125Scott Stringer (born 1960)DemocraticJanuary 1, 2006– December 31, 201324C. Virginia Fields (born 1945)DemocraticJanuary 1, 1998– December 31, 2005A Democrat, she was elected Bronx Borough President in November 2021 to a four-year term beginning January 2022, running on a platform focused on recovery from COVID-19 impact, food insecurity and housing instability. She is the first female and first African American Bronx Borough President.
Until March 1, 2009, the Borough President of the Bronx was Adolfo Carrión Jr., elected as a Democrat in 2001 and 2005 before retiring early to direct the White House Office of Urban Affairs Policy.
Nov 3, 2021 · Vanessa Gibson, a powerful voice on public safety across almost eight years in the City Council, was elected the first female Bronx borough president on Tuesday. Gibson, 42, coasted to general...
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Mar 22, 2022 · Gibson was sworn into office as the Bronx borough president in 2021. Vanessa Gibson, the first woman and first Black to hold the office of Bronx borough president, has been breaking through glass and race barriers for most of her life.