Adolfo Carrión Jr.

In late 2012, Carrión registered as an Independent, to begin exploring a run for Mayor of New York City, and in February 2013 he was granted the Independence Party nomination. Currently, Carrión is serving as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. He was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams on January 30, 2022.

On February 26, 2013, Carrion announced during an interview with the EFE news agency, that he will run for the Mayor of New York as an independent candidate. He also unsuccessfully pursued a Wilson Pakula designation to secure a spot in the Republican primary.

Carrión's position at the Domestic Policy Council ended on May 3, 2010, when the Obama Administration named Carrión Regional Director for HUD's New York and New Jersey Regional Office. He left HUD in February, 2012. As Regional Administrator, Carrión was responsible for overseeing nearly $6 billion in HUD investments in New York and New Jersey.

Carrión did not pay Subotovsky for this work until April 2009. Carrión's explanation was that he had not yet requested a final survey of his property and that Subotovsky's "practice was to not bill clients until the permit file at the Buildings Department is complete and closed." Coincidentally, the bill was not paid until the same week the Department of Investigation raided the offices of the Boricua Village project developer, Atlantic Development Group, as part of a bribery and corruption probe. Initially, Carrión had reported that he owed Subotovsky $3,627.50 for 51.5 hours of work. The check he sent the architect was for $4,247.50. As of this writing, there is no information about whether Carrión is still under investigation or not.

On December 6, 2008, Carrión announced in a speech at Yale University that President-elect Barack Obama had selected him for a cabinet-level position. In February 2009, he took office as director of the newly created White House Office of Urban Affairs Policy. Carrión's work at the White House resulted in the establishment of a White House Urban Policy Working Group and the first interagency review in 30 years of the federal government's engagement with urban and metropolitan areas.

Adolfo Carrión would have been limited by the City Charter from seeking a third term as borough president until a narrow October 2008 vote of the New York City Council allowed third terms for elected city officials (including incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg). The media frequently speculated that Carrión would be a candidate for Mayor of New York City in 2009. However, on December 13, 2007, Carrión announced that he would be a candidate for New York City Comptroller in the 2009 election.

On July 1, 2007, Adolfo Carrión was elected president of NALEO, the nonpartisan leadership organization of the nation's 6,000 Latino elected and appointed officials. As President, he announced an increase in efforts to help file naturalization papers for eligible legal permanent residents before impending fee increases take effect as part of NALEO's "ya es hora" campaign. He previously served as Vice President and Treasurer. NALEO is a national organization that offers training and technical assistance to enhance the leadership skills and political empowerment of Latino appointed and elected officials.

Carrión worked with Mayor Bloomberg and community leaders to re-envision 690-acre (2.8 km) industrial area on the Bronx waterfront. Key components of the plan include $110 million invested by the city for infrastructure improvements, $85 million development of the Fulton Fish Market at Hunts Point, $25 million development of the Produce Market, the construction of the new Barretto Point Park, the South Bronx Greenway Initiative, and a re-use plan for the Marine Transfer Station which As of 2007 is still in negotiations.

Until the New York City Charter was amended in 2008, it prevented Carrión from seeking a third term as borough president. He raised money for citywide office and it was widely speculated that he was contemplating running for Mayor of New York City. On December 13, 2007, however, he announced that he was running in the 2009 New York City Comptroller's race to replace the existing Comptroller (Bill Thompson) who, at the time, was also term limited. As events turned out in 2009, Thompson ran for Mayor while Carrión left the borough presidency before the end of his second term in order to accept his post in the Obama administration.

On March 7, 2007, a fire engulfed the row house at 1022 Woodycrest Ave in the Bronx, killing 8 children and one woman. The two families affected were those of Moussa Magassa, who lost four children, and Mamadou Soumare, who lost four children and his wife. Carrión worked with business and community leaders to raise over $200,000 for the two families, including support from the New York Yankees who financed the cost of the funeral and the Soumare family's travel arrangements to Mali. When the incident occurred, Mr. Soumare's application for permanent residency was still pending approval, so Carrión worked with other elected officials to secure permission from immigration officials for Mr. Soumare to return to the United States after burying his family in Mali. The fire was caused by a space heater and touched off a fire safety awareness campaign by Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Fire Department.

Carrión was the most vocal outer-borough supporter of Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan which would charge drivers a fee to enter Manhattan between the hours of 8am and 6pm in an effort to reduce congestion and minimize the city's air pollution. On June 15, 2007, Carrión held a press conference with Mayor Bloomberg and nearly a dozen other elected officials from the Bronx to announce their support for the plan, though he stressed that proposed improvements to mass transit would need to be clarified before this plan was implemented.

In April, 2007 a video filmed in June 2006 surfaced on YouTube depicting a German military training exercise in which a German Army instructor orders a recruit to pretend he is in the Bronx and to fire on a van full of African-Americans who are insulting his mother in the worst way. The soldier fires and yells obscenities in English, whereupon he is instructed to yell louder next time. Upon seeing the video, Carrión demanded an apology from the German government and that appropriate action be taken against the offending officer. Carrión, who had just returned from Germany on a tour to promote tourism to the Bronx, offered to return to educate officials about the borough. He also offered to host a contingent of government and military officials to give them a tour of the area. As a result of his remarks, the German Army instructor in the video was relieved of duty and denied retirement benefits. Mayor Andreas Breitner of Rendsburg, the town where the video originated, and German Consul-General Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth issued formal apologies for the incident.

The Bronx District Attorney's office investigated some construction work on a piece of property owned by Carrión, in response to a report by the New York Daily News. In 2007, Mr. Carrión had a porch and balcony added to his Victorian home on City Island, Bronx. According to documents obtained by the Daily News from the contractor, Nationwide Maintenance of the Bronx, and from the New York City Department of Buildings, "the project's estimated cost was $50,000. Carrión wound up paying less than half of the estimate – $24,000.

Although council members are allowed to seek reelection, Carrión did not run for a second term. He had been rumored to be a leading candidate to become the next speaker of the city council, but he chose instead to run in the hotly contested 2001 election to succeed Bronx borough president Freddy Ferrer, who was at that time prevented under the City Charter from seeking a third term in office. He edged out then-Councilmember June Eisland and State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. for the Democratic nomination and then won the general election on November 6, 2001, with a landslide 79% of the vote. He easily won reelection in 2005 with 87%.

In 2001, he and three others including the Rev. Al Sharpton travelled to Puerto Rico to protest the Navy's bombing exercises on the island of Vieques. The "Vieques Four" were imprisoned by the federal government for more than 40 days for protesting the policy. Their actions led to President Bush's imposition of a permanent moratorium on weapons testing on the island

Carrión ran for New York City Council in 1997. He won the election and served one four-year term representing the 14th district, which includes the West Bronx neighborhoods of University Heights, Morris Heights, Kingsbridge, and Fordham. While on the Council, Carrión belonged to its committees on Economic Development, Education, Higher Education, Environmental Protection, Governmental Operations and Land Use. He also served as chairman of the Special Subcommittee on the 2000 Census.

Adolfo Carrión Jr. (born March 6, 1961) is an American businessman and former elected official from City Island. He has three sisters Elizabeth Carrión-Stevens, Damaris Carrión-Harris and Lizette Carrión. He served one term as a member of the New York City Council, representing the 14th district. He served for seven years as the borough president of the Bronx, for a year and five months as the first director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs in the Obama Administration, and then for nearly two years as Regional Administrator for HUD's New York and New Jersey Regional Office. He left HUD in February 2012.

Adolfo Carrión was born in Manhattan, in 1961. His family moved to the Baychester section of the Northeast Bronx when he was in fourth grade. He attended public school at PS34 (Manh), PS111 (Bx), John Philip Sousa Middle School and Harry S. Truman High School in the Bronx. Later, he graduated from The King's College, a Christian liberal arts college in Westchester County at the time, where he majored in world religions and philosophy. He followed in the footsteps of his father, a Protestant minister, and became an associate pastor at a Bronx church.