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In a mayor’s race crammed with celebrity razzle-dazzle, historic candidacies and tabloid turns, a gangly liberal from Brooklyn is quietly surging into the top tier of the field by talking about decidedly unglamorous topics: neglected hospitals, a swelling poverty rate and a broken prekindergarten system.
Now that Anthony D. Weiner’s campaign has imploded, Bill de Blasio, the public advocate, is drawing new energy and voter interest to a candidacy that presents the most sweeping rejection of what New York City has become in the past 12 years — a city, he says, that is defined by its yawning inequities.I give Bloomberg plenty of credit for the things he's gotten right. But he's absolutely fallen down on the job when it comes to services for the vast majority of NYC's population. Bloomberg is a guy that's utterly out of touch with the realities of daily life for working people in this city. After 12 years with a billionaire at the helm, New York could use a Mayor who appreciates what its like to live a working class existence in Brooklyn.
“We are not, by our nature, an elitist city,” he told a group of young Democrats a few nights ago at a cramped bar in Brooklyn. “We are not a city for the chosen few.”
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The Boerum Hill Association, Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association, Cobble Hill Association, Brooklyn Heights Association, Wyckoff Gardens Association and Riverside Tenants’ Association have joined as full partners a legal action to avert the shutdown, de Blasio said.Of course Maria Pagano and I stood with Bill behalf of the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association:
“Closing this hospital would be a crushing blow to the thousands of Brooklynites who rely on [LICH] for care, and for all our families who will have to travel miles to the nearest hospital. said Gary Reilly, Executive Board Member of the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association. “SUNY should work with the community to find other ways of sustaining our hospital before shutting the doors of this institution.”When our then one year old daughter couldn't breathe in the middle of the night, we went to LICH - and we were taken care of. When a good friend and colleague suffered a stroke in recent years, LICH was there - and my friend is still here.
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