Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner O'Neil spoke to the media to discuss crime statistics and also spoke of strategies to keep Hanukah celebrations safe.
Mayor de Blasio announced the City would be moving forward with converting nearly 500 cluster units across 17 buildings into permanent affordable housing for over 1,000 New Yorkers in need.
First Lady Chirlane McCrayand the Gracie Mansion Conservancy announced they would be starting the third season of the Gracie Book Club with a discussion of Andrew Solomon’s “The Noonday Demon”
First Lady Chirlane McCray and other admin announced that a monument to U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the first black Congresswoman and the first woman to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, would be erected at the Parkside entrance to Prospect Park.