Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City’s Security Infrastructure Working Group announced plans to bring permanent perimeter barriers, or bollards, to high-profile sites and to create a process to streamline their design and construction.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio announced two laws that shine a spotlight on both public and private vacant land to further accelerate the production of affordable housing. This legislation is the latest effort to help the City reach its goal of building 300,000 affordable homes over the next decade.
Mayor de Blasio appeared on the Brian Lehrer show to discuss events within his administration and remarks of the Trump administration, discussing the morality of keeping up monuments of people like Christopher Columbus, who many call a racist historical figure, and hateful comments made by Trump.