The new top spokesman for New York City’s Department of Social Services once wrote a since-retracted editorial that compared car reduction efforts in the city to the Holocaust. Stephen Witt, an editor at the Schneps Media-owned PoliticsNY website, announced in a blog post on Thursday that he’d been tapped as DSS’ new deputy commissioner for press relations, a position that has remained vacant since the last person in that role got fired this summer. Advertisement “With a mixture of sadness and excitement, I will be leaving my position as Political Editor-in-Chief of Schneps Media, and joining the administration of Mayor...