Brian Mayer on WNYC.

Now for our regular Wednesday check-in on the city's political beat with two reporters who've been following the mayoral campaign, Bridget Bergen, our senior political correspondent for WNYC and Gothamist, and Elizabeth Kim, also, of course, a reporter for WNYC and Gothamist who's been joining us every Wednesday for quite a while now, first as our lead Eric Adams reporter, and now that's kind of morphed into her beat following the campaign.

Today, they're here to walk us through several political headlines in the city and to take

your calls. There's a new wave of outdoor focused proposals for Mayor Adams, including plans

to buy land for new parks and deploy drones to prevent drownings at city beaches.

Also, a public school student was arrested by ICE in the Bronx, if you haven't heard that yet,

sparking concern from immigrant advocates and a muted response from the mayor.

We'll also hear a clip from city council speaker Adrian Adams,

who's running in the Democratic primary, who recently spoke out against Andrew Cuomo's

COVID-era leadership in deeply personal terms, even as he's reportedly being investigated by

the Trump Justice Department now for related things,

and check in on how the Democratic primary candidates are positioning themselves generally, financially, rhetorically, ideologically.

Hi, Bridget. Hi, Liz. Happy Wednesday. Good morning, Brian. And Liz, I want to start with the arrest of a Bronx public school

student by ICE. What do we know about how this unfolded and what triggered federal involvement

with respect to this student? So this was a very significant incident, Brian, because this is the only

public school student that's known, you know, at least to the city, to have been arrested by ICE.

The lawyer is only providing the individual's first name, Dylan.

He's 20 years old.

He was attending Ellis Academy in the Bronx, which serves older

immigrant students. And what happened, according to his lawyer, was he was arrested inside an

immigration courthouse. He was arrested in the lobby after he had attended a hearing, a deportation hearing in which his case was dismissed.

You know, my colleague Aria Sundaram wrote the story and she tells me that this is highly unusual.

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