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#AskTheMayor: Housing Under Amazon, Snow Storm Traffic Meltdown and More
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC, including the unexpected snow storm that caused traffic jams across the city on Thursday, and what Amazon may mean to the local economy and affordable housing.
"On Wednesday night the National Weather Service was saying 1-2 inches… but then it became it was going to hit right at rush hour. If we had better knowledge we would have told people on Wednesday night," @NYCMayor, adding there will be a full review on yesterday's snow storm.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) November 16, 2018"[Amazon is] going to produce a vast amount of revenue to do… affordable housing, helping people get job training. A lot of things we do to protect small businesses and small communities cost money, we have to have a tax base that provides for that," says @NYCMayor.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) November 16, 2018