Jessica Lappin
Former Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan)
Jessica Lappin is a Former Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan).
- Served
- Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan), 2006-2013
- After the Council
- President, Alliance for Downtown New York
- Pay there (FY2023 filing)
- $581,110
After the Council
Became President of the Alliance for Downtown New York, the business improvement district for Lower Manhattan, in February 2014, shortly after leaving the Council. BIDs are funded by city-collected mandatory assessments. Role and pay are from the organization's own 990 filings; the identity was
- Alliance for Downtown New York President · since February 2014 $581,110 (FY2023)
Career before elected office
Before winning her seat in 2005 she spent nearly a decade on Council Member (later Speaker) Gifford Miller's staff, rising to district chief of staff and senior adviser, after a brief stint in public relations at Christian Dior. From public biographies and news coverage (see sources).
- Public relations staffer Christian Dior about 1997
- District Chief of Staff and senior adviser Office of Council Member Gifford Miller about 1997 to 2005