A Tale of Two Boroughs: Bill de Blasio Rarely Visits Brooklyn GOP Strongholds
Ross Barkan
Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged to eradicate the tale of two cities, but if his public schedule is any indication, he may be creating a tale of two boroughs.
The proud Democrat, openly disdainful of the right wing of American politics, has rarely held public events in neighborhoods that favored his Republican rival last fall, an Observer review of Mr. de Blasio’s public schedules show. Mr. de Blasio captured the mayoralty with the greatest landslide in a generation, but the few areas that supported Republican Joseph Lhota have not been lavished with attention.
Mr. de Blasio, a Brooklynite, held press conferences in Democratic strongholds like Williamsburg, Bushwick, Red Hook, Sunset Park, Bedford-Stuyvesant and East New York over the first seven and a half months of his administration. But along the southern swath of Brooklyn–in neighborhoods including Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Boro Park, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Mill Basin and Bergen Beach–Mr. de Blasio has not scheduled a public appearance since becoming mayor in January.
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