Tag: Bill de Blasio

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Mayor de Blasio holds COVID-19 press conference

Mayor de Blasio along with Dr. Oxiris Barbot (Commissioner of Health of City of New York), Raul Perea-Henze (Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services) and Marco Carrion (Commissioner of the Community Affairs Unit) held a press conference and Q&A on March 11 for community media on the emerging coronavirus. They emphasized that anyone who asks for health care and […]

Bill de Blasio and his family march in a protest in 2013
Politics

RUNNING FOR WHAT?? by Matthew Reiss

THE ZONELORD We predicted long ago that the mayor was using his term of office to curry favor with the capital-concrete lobby in pursuit of a job that paid better. So when we read that Warren Wilhelm de Blasio announced May 16 he’d entered the race for president of the Real Estate Board of New York we felt vindicated. Why […]

Red Hook Ferry

Atlantic Basin finally getting community use, by Sarah Matusek

The opening of NYC Ferry’s South Brooklyn route on June 1 means “a big step forward for Red Hook,” according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.   “Residents of this community will finally have the access they deserve to everything this city has to offer,” he said at Red Hook’s ferry landing during a press conference Wednesday morning, one day before […]

Spoof

The Mayor’s new Brooklyn- Queens Trolley scheme, by Floppity Eerzo

After announcing his ambitious plan to build a trolley system in February, Mayor Bill de Blasio has been touring the neighborhoods of his real estate buddies where the streetcar might possibly double, triple or quadruple their property values. In March, he graced Red Hook with his appearance. Although he has no known major campaign donors in the area, he was […]

Op Ed

Op Ed: Thoughts about de Blasio’s citywide rezoning ideas, by Ed Jaworski, President, Madison-Marine-Homecrest Civic Association

Editor’s Note: What follows was a letter sent to members of the City Council and the press. Jaworski prefaces the letter with the following: As you consider the Mayor’s-City Planning (DCP) proposals for Zoning for Quality & Affordability and Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, you have heard from many who very knowledgeable about the flaws of the substance of the proposals. (Note, […]

LICH, Politics

De Blasio announces newest and greatest SUNY/LICH court order yet, by George Fiala

A bit after one pm, on the 6th of September, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio stepped up to the makeshift podium across from Long Island College Hospital and greeted his LICH supporters. The group, made up of employees, former patients, local residents and politicians, and a press corps that grows bigger each week, meet across from the hospital on the […]

Politics

Star-Revue Primary Endorsements

For Mayor the Star-Revue endorses Bill de Blasio. We like Bill for a couple of reasons. Bill de Blasio has been a friend to the neighborhood of Red Hook, as well as all of Brooklyn as a whole. He is from the area, having represented the 39th District as City Councilman until his election as Public Advocate in 2009. His […]