Exit Interview for a Bronx Council Member
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Marjorie Velázquez, NYC Council Member (District 13, East Bronx including Throggs Neck, Pelham Parkway, Morris Park, Pelham Bay, Pelham Gardens, Schuylerville, Country Club, Locust Point, and Westchester Square, as well as parts of Allerton and Van Nest), reflects on her tenure at City Hall and discusses the politics of housing development amid New York's dire housing shortage. The outgoing Council Member's decision to support a housing plan in her district has been cited as a key reason she lost the seat to Republican Kristy Marmorato.
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| 0:00.0 | Ryan Miller on WNYC. By the way, a couple of the finalists in the best photo contest |
| 0:16.0 | were shots of rainbows that people stumbled upon. |
| 0:21.0 | That's how you shoot a rainbow, right? |
| 0:23.1 | You're not like setting up a rainbow in a studio. |
| 0:26.9 | You stumble upon, there's a rainbow, and you whip out |
| 0:30.4 | your phone and you shoot the rainbow and maybe it comes out. Well, 10 minutes ago. whip out |
| 0:33.4 | well ten minutes ago |
| 0:35.8 | somebody texted so I don't know if it's too late but I'm passing it along |
| 0:40.4 | the ten minutes ago, somebody texted, |
| 0:42.5 | hello WNYC, I know the photo segment |
| 0:44.8 | it was yesterday, but there was a rainbow right now |
| 0:47.7 | over the Empire State Building. |
| 0:50.2 | Incredible. |
| 0:51.2 | So like I say, I don't know if it's still there or if this person made it up. |
| 0:56.0 | But there it is. There's a tip. As of 15 minutes ago, maybe there's a rainbow right now over the Empire State Building if you can see that from wherever you are there you go |
| 1:07.0 | Now an exit interview with New York City Council member Marjorie Velazquez. |
| 1:13.2 | You'll hear why in a minute. |
| 1:14.3 | Her district in the Northeast Bronx includes Morris Park, Pelham Parkway, Pelham Bay, |
| 1:20.0 | Country Club Van Nest, Westchester Square, Throgs Neck, and City Island. |
| 1:25.0 | In November, Council Member Velazquez lost her seat to Republican Christie Marmarato, |
| 1:31.1 | and that marked the first time in 40 years that the GOP won a city council seat in the Bronx. |
| 1:38.0 | We're going to invite Christie Marmorado and other new members of council on after the first of the year, but we want to do this exit interview first, because one major reason for Velasquez's loss in a district where the majority, the vast majority of registered voters are Democrats, |
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