Brian Mayer on W.N.C. So as you probably know, Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference

per week, off-topic being press lingo for when reporters can ask him questions on any subject.

This week, Mayor Adams opened the off topic press conference

with what he called a victory lap on the City Council

approving the Bronx Metro North Resoning Plan.

The plan will allow construction of roughly 7,000 new housing units around two of the new Metro

North stations in the East Bronx.

Now that plan passed by City Council last Thursday

is a separate but similar part of the Adams administration

proposal to change the zoning footprint city wide called City of Yes, you've heard of that City of Yes

campaign from the Mayor's Office, the full title City of Yes for Housing

Opportunity, that showdown will take place in the city council this fall.

The mayor is attending the Democratic National Convention this week, but has not been

invited to speak.

Some are considering that a snub.

And since this is the media's once per week,

off topic news conference with the mayor.

A lot of the questions were actually about

why he's going to the DNC in the first place,

especially since it seemed that he wasn't so in

with the Biden Harris group.

So we'll talk about all that and more with Michelle Boke Negra,

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