It's the Brian Lairr Show on WNYC.

Welcome back, everybody.

I'm Kushan Avidar.

I'm filling in for Brian today.

Now it's time to catch up with WNYC and Gothamist's lead Mayor Adams reporter,

Elizabeth Kim. Every Tuesday, the mayor holds an off-topic press conference. It's allowing

reporters to ask him directly about the forefront issues of the week. For the last eight months,

we've had Liz join us Wednesday mornings to recap what's

going on at City Hall. I am lucky that Liz is sitting right across the table for me right now. Liz,

welcome back. Thanks for joining us. Hi, good morning. So eight months, that's almost 35 weeks.

You really get to know a person, I think. Why don't we start by reviewing your experience

over this time? You've been going to these pressers for a while. What's your experience been like?

Has anything changed about these conferences over time? I would say that I am surprised that it's

lasted as long as it has. When the mayor announced that he was going to do this

once a week format, I think the prevailing wisdom among political experts was that he's going to try

it out and he's going to see that it doesn't really work and then he's gradually going to

move away from this practice and go back to how it's usually done.

And just to remind listeners how it's usually done is, you know, the mayor has events.

The press corps will usually follow him out to these events, and he'll take questions afterwards.

Typically, the mayor will say

I'm going to take on-topic questions first, meaning that these are only questions that are related

to the announcement that he's making at the event. And then afterwards, he takes a couple of

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