Mayor Eric Adams and the city council took legislative steps this week to solve racial and gender disparities in the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), the largest fire department in the entire country.
Despite its size and a discrimination lawsuit decades ago, the FDNY is still overwhelmingly white and male in its uniformed department and higher paid ranks.
Black men have been firefighters in the city since the 1920s and women since the 1980s. In 2007, the Black Vulcan Firefighter Society filed and won a lawsuit against the FDNY for continued discrimination in the exam process towards Black and Latino applicants. The lawsuit wasn’t settled until 2014. Even so the FDNY today is composed of 8% Black firefighters, 13% Latino, 2% Asian and less than 1% women, said the city.
FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, the first woman ever to hold the position, said she has been championing these kinds of changes to the department over the course of her career. “I have said this over and over since I was appointed a few weeks ago, change and tradition can live side by side, and I know that because I have lived it,” said Kavanagh at the signing. “I know that this is an organization that we talk about with tradition, and it certainly has those great traditions.
Councilmember Kevin Riley co-chairs the Black, Latino and Asian Caucus and sponsored bills 552-A and 553-A. He said his bills would further support the goal of opening clear measures for transparency and accountability in the FDNY.
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