De Blasio: I’ll Be A Different Type Of Mayor

Bill de Blasio had lunch at The New Yorker on Thursday, and during about fifty minutes of conversation with editors and writers, myself included, he let slip some important news: his mother was “an obsessive New Yorker reader.” Not only that, but, between gulps of a sandwich, the six-five Park Slope resident said that he intends to be a new type of mayor: one who listens to New Yorkers rather than berating and haranguing them in the manner of some of his predecessors.

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