Reporters Ask the Mayor: Subway Crime, FBI Investigation and More
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 15 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, plus other city news from the week.
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| 0:00.0 | The Brian Lear on WNC, now WNC's lead Eric Adams reporter Elizabeth Kim. |
| 0:16.7 | The only time each week that the mayor will answer an array of reporters questions |
| 0:21.0 | is at his weekly Tuesday news conference and so we've been having Liz on |
| 0:25.2 | the show on Wednesdays with clips and analysis to keep you informed about the |
| 0:29.8 | mayor of New York and what he's up to and what he does means and after journalists |
| 0:34.9 | get there one weekly shot at asking him questions of their choice. |
| 0:38.3 | Hi Liz, thanks as always for doing this and welcome back to the show. |
| 0:41.3 | Good morning Brian. |
| 0:42.3 | Yesterday's news conference seemed to focus doing this and welcome back to the show. Good morning Brian. |
| 0:46.8 | Yesterday's news conference seemed to focus mostly on subway crime. Why was that? |
| 0:48.3 | Well, subway crime is up 13% year to date. |
| 0:52.8 | And that includes three fatal subway shootings. |
| 0:56.6 | Just last Thursday, someone slashed a conductor |
| 1:00.2 | in the neck while he was doing a routine safety check at a Brooklyn station. |
| 1:05.0 | And you know it's been said over and over the subway is the lifeblood of the city and |
| 1:11.0 | in order for the city to have an economic recovery from the |
| 1:16.8 | pandemic a successful economic recovery the city of the mayor really needs to |
| 1:22.2 | get people back back on the subways and he has to reassure them |
| 1:27.6 | that the subways are safe. |
| 1:29.5 | Now while overall crime has been down and I should emphasize that you know there are |
| 1:34.2 | about 4 million rides every weekday on you know 4 million rides on on week days |
| 1:41.2 | on the subway system. |
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