#AskTheMayor: Deadly Fire in the Bronx, Record Low Crime and the Search for a New School Chancellor
Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC. We learn more details about a deadly fire in the Bronx, which appears to be started by a child on the first floor playing with a stove. Plus, the Mayor discusses this year's record low crime rates, the search for a new school chancellor and his upcoming inauguration, where he'll be sworn in by Senator Bernie Sanders.
BdB tells @BrianLehrer that the fire appears to have begun on the first floor of the building after a small child had been playing with a stove. Accidental. Fire spread quickly. BdB can't comment yet on the status of the building, but nothing apparently problematic preliminarily.
— Ben Max (@TweetBenMax) December 29, 2017
"I just wonder why it is so difficult to really push landlords to do anything," woman calling @NYCMayor on @BrianLehrer Show says, saying her building hasn't had heat or hot water for three weeks.
— Jillian Jorgensen (@Jill_Jorgensen) December 29, 2017
Donna, calling into @BrianLehrer encourages @NYCMayor to hire the next schools chancellor from inside the DOE. Says someone from within can continue good work.
— Gloria Pazmino (@GloriaPazmino) December 29, 2017
.@BrianLehrer why is @NYCMayor pushing to limit funding to legal service orgs to prohibit them from helping immigrants who have had contact w the criminal justice system? How does this make New York a city that protects ALL New Yorkers & gives #DueProcess4All? #AsktheMayor
— genia blaser (@geniablaser) December 29, 2017
