NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The head of New York City's parks department, Mitchell Silver, will step down in the coming months, the agency said Tuesday.
NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver will leave his post in "late spring" or "early summer," the department said in a press release.
Silver recently accepted a job as a principal at McAdams, a North Carolina-based civil engineering and landscape architecture firm, the release said.
"I thank Mayor [Bill] de Blasio for giving me the privilege to help transform NYC Parks and our parks system; making them more equitable, inclusive and resilient over the past seven years," Silver said in a statement.
"I am grateful to have worked with the amazing NYC Parks leadership team, as well as all the dedicated Parks staff who keep our parks safe, clean and accessible, especially through this global pandemic," he added. "Serving as commissioner has been the highest honor of my career."
In his own statement, de Blasio — who appointed Silver to the post in 2014 — said "no one has been a better steward for our parks than Mitchell Silver."
"Parks have offered a solace for so many New Yorkers during the darkest days of the pandemic," he added. "All New Yorkers are better off for his service."
