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Amid slumping polls, NY mayor tries to control image

That will involve meeting with community and church leaders, town hall meetings with the public, and appearances on radio shows where he can take calls from listeners, the mayor added. When the I-Team got a tip that to make sure he was on time this year, the NYPD was considering taking him there by helicopter, cameras kept a close eye on his commute.

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Citing her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, de Blasio finally endorsed Clinton last month, doing so in an early Friday morning TV interview during a week in which the nation’s largest city was preoccupied by the killing of a police officer, the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy and the Mets’ World Series run. “And we’re going to keep trying new strategies until we find the ones that we think work best”.

“This is one of the epicenters of overcrowding in the city, and we know that, and we have to do a lot to fix it”, de Blasio said.

Shapiro said union activists “are promoting the perception that crime is up even though it isn’t, and that they are in danger and he doesn’t care, to send the mayor a signal that these issues could hurt his re-election effort”. His office said heavy fog also delayed him. It was headed to the Dominican Republic.

But on Thursday he arrived to the Queens memorial site more than 30 minutes early.

De Blasio said he woke up feeling sluggish but should have “gotten myself moving quicker”.

De Blasio, who has been criticized by a few veterans groups, has vowed to end veteran homelessness by year’s end.

Here’s exactly what he said: “My best advice to the citizens of NY City: If this is so upsetting to you, don’t give”. The rise of those “on-topic-only” press conferences has drawn the objections of The NY Press Club, and reporters have begun to ignore the restrictions.

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“I really appreciate that he made it”, said Karen Taveres, who lost her mother and nephew on the flight.

Mayor Bill de Blasio holds town hall meeting on education in Jackson Heights