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Sep 25, 2020 10 tweets 3 min read Read on X
It's #AskTheMayor now on @BrianLehrer

Got a Q for @NYCMayor? Use the hashtag!

The mayor kicks things off by commending Brian for 31 years on @WNYC
And here comes news on outdoor dining. The city will expand it permanently and allow heating elements including propane, according to an early version of the release obtained by the WSJ
Here's a call from a man in Bay Ridge asking about the continued closure of small venues like comedy clubs that serve food and drink, which he says have been denied conversations with @nycnightlifegov
"We want to make a living as well, your honor. How do we do that?," David in Bay Ridge asks @NYCMayor
More on outdoor dining -- propane heaters will be restricted to sidewalk dining while electric can be used on sidewalk and in the street, according to the release
The mayor says he supports these businesses reopening but it requires cooperation from the state
.@BrianLehrer asks if there are enough Yiddish-speaking contact tracers in communities with higher cases of covid-19, which mayor says they do
next caller is asking for some Covid-19 data to be made public, but most of it already is: www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid…
should point out the data became available after many reporters kept asking for it ...
CC Liz on @BrianLehrer, here is graph/chart of zip codes with highest percentage of positive test rates (also a map) www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid…

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"I don't know if it was my police gut feeling" @NYCMayor says on Fox 5 of the Columbia protests being "different"

"It was materialized that there were outside agitators," he continues, but neither he nor the NYPD have been able to provide details.

"We have identified some"
The mayor has moved on from saying "outside agitators" infiltrated Columbia's protests to saying there could be a bad professor out there "radicalizing" students.
Asked about getting migrants to work, @NYCMayor again reiterates that the city needs lifeguards, which is true, but him repeating it shows he has no idea how his own @NYCParks certifies and trains lifeguards.

In short, it's too late to become a summer lifeguard.
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Meeting with voters and future voters on Roosevelt ImageImage
.@AOC on what she’s hearing from voters
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Waiting with at least 100 other members of the media for presser to update on mass shouting at BK subway station. @NYCMayor is on day 3 of COVID quarantine, and Dep Mayor Lorraine Grillo is here. We are waiting on @GovKathyHochul whose lt gov turned himself into police today
First Dep Mayor Lorraine Grillo: says she’s been speaking with @NBCNewYork on the phone since this happened to assist law enforcement
.@NYPDPC: this is not being investigated as an act of terrorism, and there are no life-threatening injuries.

At 8:24 am a man on Manhattan bound N put on a gas mask and green construction vest, began shooting as train entered 36th St

Suspect is 5’5, Black man, grey hoodie
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Sep 2, 2021
Last night's storm was complicated in that climate change is making these events stronger and more frequent -- but there is plenty of basic governmental failure that makes things worse.

So we have @NYCMayor and others deferring only to climate change and not their own failings
On 183rd St. in Queens, a mother and son died when rushing water flooded their basement apartment. The foundation collapsed, making it harder for FDNY to rescue them, officials said.
Jennifer Mooklal lives across the street and said her home has flooded her entire life.

“For politicians and the governor to say that it’s global warming, it’s not global warming,” she said. “It’s a sewer issue that they don’t want to acknowledge.”
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Sep 29, 2020
.@NYCMayor kicks things off a little differently -- he's starting with the daily indicators and giving the 7-day rolling average of Covid-19 positivity rate
1.38% 7-day rolling average citywide

Problem is primarily in 9 Zip codes which is affecting the daily number, @NYCMayor says, which is OVER 3%.

It shows the city has to be on "high alert" to keep upticks down, he says
Based on the 7-day rolling average, schools will remain open, @NYCMayor says.
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Sep 28, 2020
First question for @NYCMayor on @InsideCityHall is about the uptick in Covid-19 cases in certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens. MAyor says there will be "a lot of close work with community organizations" to get people wearing masks, socially-distanced
.@NYCMayor says he spoke with community leaders in one neighborhood late Saturday, who he said were committed to getting more compliance
.@errollouis says there are 8 Zip codes in the city that are over the 3% threshold to close pubblic schools.

Mayor says it's 3% on a 7-day rolling standard that the city set as a standard. The city overall is 1.9% -- higher than it's been in the last weeks.
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