Reporters Ask the Mayor: Homelessness on the Subway, Mayoral Control of Schools and More
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps what he talked about at this week's event, including how the NYPD should engage with the homeless on the subway, mayoral control of schools and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larra Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. We'll begin today with our lead Eric Adams reporter, |
| 0:16.8 | WNYC and Gothamists Elizabeth Kim, who usually joins us on Wednesdays after the mayor's weekly Tuesday news |
| 0:23.8 | conferences remember that's the only time each week that he takes questions from |
| 0:28.2 | the City Hall Press Corps on topics that they choose rather than those |
| 0:31.8 | dictated by the mayor's office. |
| 0:34.3 | As it happens, Liz asked a question yesterday that related to our segment on this show on |
| 0:39.4 | Monday with NYPD Chief of Patrol John Shell about NYPD effectiveness with people in the |
| 0:46.2 | subways who are apparently homeless or in severe mental health distress. |
| 0:50.3 | Liz also asked the mayor if he would consider emulating Mayor Michael Bloomberg and take the subway to work. |
| 0:57.8 | We'll play those excerpts and more and open the phones for reactions. |
| 1:01.6 | Liz always good of you to come on on so many Wednesdays. |
| 1:04.1 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 1:05.2 | Hi, good morning, Brian. |
| 1:06.9 | So we're going to start with your question to the mayor |
| 1:09.1 | about the NYPD and people in apparent distress on the subways and here's that. |
| 1:15.0 | Last week you were talking about when you went in the subways with the NYPD to see what they were doing and you said that one thing |
| 1:25.8 | you didn't see them do was engage with people who needed help people who |
| 1:31.2 | appear to be homeless people who appear to be homeless, |
| 1:32.8 | people who appear to be in mental distress. |
| 1:36.0 | And you also said that under the previous administration, |
| 1:39.5 | there had been a program in which officers were doing more of that with a team of social workers. |
| 1:46.7 | I wonder what kind of model would you like to see. I know we have Scout. Do you want to see an expansion of that? Would you like to see the |
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