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Emma Hinchliffe

FDNY commissioner Laura Kavanagh is one of three women running New York's biggest agencies

(Credit: Alexi Rosenfeld—WireImage/Getty Images)

Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Spotify has only spent 10% of a promised pledge to diverse creators, Maven makes an acquisition, and FDNY's first female chief navigates the ups and downs of her history-making appointment.

- On fire. New York City has still never had a female mayor, but the city of 8.5 million does have women in charge of some of its biggest agencies.

In December 2021, Keechant L. Sewell was named commissioner of the New York Police Department. In April 2022, Jessica Tisch became sanitation commissioner. Then in November, Laura Kavanagh joined them when Mayor Eric Adams named her commissioner of the Fire Department of New York.

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