Brian Laird on W.N.C. with us now. The best reason in my opinion to still have cable TV in New York City,

Errol Lewis, host of the Spectrum News, New York One, Nightly Politics and and issues program Inside City Hall.

He's also a New York magazine columnist and host of the New York One podcast,

you decide.

We're going to talk some news of today and some history with Era Lewis now.

On news of the day, three weeks ago, Era wrote a column in New York magazine called

Eric Adams is fighting for his political life.

Yesterday, Quinnipiac released a poll showing Adams

with an unprecedented low approval rating for a mayor in the history of the Quinnipiac poll, 28%. But we'll also talk a lot about history. You know we like history on the show and

Errol has a series on his You Decide podcast now called Mario Cuomo, the last liberal.

The hook is that it was 40 years ago, 1983,

that Mario Cuomo became governor.

And to set it up, and for those of you,

young enough that you only know Mario Cuomo as a bridge that used to be called Tappan Z.

Here is the first one minute of Eros episode one.

In this part of the city there are more poor than ever more families in trouble more and more people who need help but can't find it

That's Mario Cuomo speaking at the 1984 Democratic National Convention, giving the very speech that made a lot of people think that he should be the one running for president. Even worse, there are elderly people who tremble in the basements of the houses there.

And there are people who sleep in the city streets in the gutter where the glitter doesn't show.

There are ghettos where thousands of young people without a job or an education

give their lives away to drug dealers every day.

There is despair, Mr President, in the faces that you don't see, in the places that you don't

visit in your shining city.

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