It's the Brian Lairn Show on WNYC. I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom,

filling in for Brian today, who will be moderating the final New York City mayoral debate tonight.

By the way, you can listen to it here on WNYC, watch it on New York One, or on their YouTube channel.

It starts at 7 p.m. It is sure to be one to watch.

But we're going to begin today by talking about some of the latest New York City news

and what it will mean going into tonight's final debate. My guests are Elizabeth Kim, my colleague

on the politics desk in the WNIC and Gothamist Newsroom. And before we get into the campaign news,

I want to bring in our colleague Ben Fuhrerherd, WNYC and Gothamist Public Safety Reporter,

who was covering yesterday's ice raid on Canal Street for a couple of questions about what he

saw there. Hey, Ben, hey Liz. Hey. Hey, Bridget. So Ben, let's start with you. Tell me what

you saw on Canal Street yesterday,

and how did you know to be there in the first place?

Yeah, so a colleague of ours got a tip

that something might be happening in that neighborhood,

which is, you know, sort of has a reputation

for an area where illegal street venues

sell counterfeit goods, so sort of made sense. Yeah, so

what we saw were sort of two raids by federal agents and immigration authorities on Canal Street

and in the surrounding neighborhood. The first raid was, you know, pretty shocking in the sense that

these masked federal agents were out arresting people, but it wasn't too chaotic. And then soon after

the agents returned to Canal Street, and that one was actually really chaotic. The agents set up

right on Canal Street near Lafayette Street and Center Street, which is really a busy part of the

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