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#NYC: Watching Eric Adams avoid worse. Harry Siegel, TheCity.nyc

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 13 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#NYC: Watching Eric Adams avoid worse. Harry Siegel, TheCity.nyc
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0:00.0

This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

0:09.2

Here's John Bachelor.

0:11.2

Manhattan, New York City, struggling in the recovery from the pandemic, in disorder on the streets, in the return to the subway, subpar from 2019 and certainly true for

0:27.1

commercial real estate which is a slow burn we're told by Bloomberg for many years

0:32.0

not just in New York but it hits New York

0:34.1

revenues hard. To help me on these stories I welcome Harry Siegel, a senior

0:39.4

editor at the City, an online journal I recommend. He is also a columnist at the New York

0:45.3

Daily News. We begin however with my memory of Mayor Eric Adams, former

0:50.7

borough president, former police officer. former I'll just say that there are two countries here that seem to be at the center of it.

1:03.7

We're going to start with Turkey and then we'll mention China.

1:06.7

Harry, a very good evening to you. It was November 2nd of last year I believe, but it might be 22 they all drift together when the

1:15.9

mayor on its way to Washington to look for assistance with the from the

1:21.5

federal government for all of the migrants pouring into New York at the time,

1:27.0

decided that to come back to New York immediately because he'd heard there was a investigation that extended a raid or a visit or a

1:35.8

complete surprise visit to one of its fundraisers from his campaign of a

1:41.2

successful campaign for the mayoralty. But that's all I remember clearly.

1:46.8

Something caused the mayor to turn around and not finish his mission in Washington. That was

1:52.2

Turkey. What was Turkey.

1:52.7

What was the suspicion at the time?

1:55.4

And now we have new information about Turkish Airlines.

1:58.0

Good evening to you.

2:00.4

Hey, good evening, John.

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