#AskTheMayor: Quality of Life in NYC

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 24, 2017

Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC, including news of a racially motivated murder, the school application process, and other quality of life issues including "quality of life" policing.

Bill deBlasio stated on @BrianLehrer show attack on 66 y/o Black man from racist White veteran from Maryland was a domestic terrorist act.
— JM (@jamesmagenst) March 24, 2017

"This is going to be a real fight," BdB tells @BrianLehrer of "mansion tax" in Albany. I'm not sure that's correct.
— Ben Max (@TweetBenMax) March 24, 2017

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