Hour 3: Mayoral Race Is Anyone's Game in NYC

Mayoral Race Is Anyone's Game in NYC. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back, Happy Wednesday, and as always, thanks for spending
part of the day with us. A big day in
the Big Three. The Justice Department opens an investigation into
allegations that Andrew Cuomo lied at a congressional hearing over
his actions that led to fifteen thousand COVID deaths at

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New York nursing homes.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh we know is Governor Cuomo ordered contagious patients into
nursing homes. He lied about it, then he covered it up,
and now he's threatening anyone who tries to cross him
to get accountability.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
A spokesperson for Andrew Cuomo claims this is all political.
Democrats are supporting the actions of the Jersey lawmakers at
the ice facility, leading to congress Woman Lamonica mcgiver from
Newark getting hit with federal charges. And she says, just

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like Cuomo said, it's all political.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
It's political intimidation and I will not be intimidated. I
expect to continue to do my job. Once again, very
unfortunate situation. I did not think when I came to
Congress in September that I would be dealing with something
like this, you know, or dealing with being charged with anything.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
I'll tell you what. This is going to be really
fascinating because mcgiver was supposed to turn herself in yesterday.
She didn't even make it to Newark. I don't think
you messed with the US Attorney in New Jersey, Elena Haba.
She will send she will send troopers to arrest her.
She will send federal officers to pick her up in

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Washington if they have to. Maybe that's what mcgiver wants.
Maybe she loves this publicity because now everybody knows their name.
We didn't know it last week. Well, star Wars is back.
Remember the idea of a strategic defense system first imagined
by Ronald Reagan forty years ago. Actually Eisenhower said something

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about this before him, but nobody called it star Wars,
and nobody had it planned out like Ronald Reagan. Well,
that may finally be accomplished thanks to Donald Trump, but
he's calling it the Golden Dome. This is very important
for the success and even survival of our country. And
said medieval world out there. And finally, George went who

(02:24):
played Norm on Cheers, has passed away.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Anybody, Hey, what's happened to Norm? Was a doggy dog world?
Sammy and I'm more in milkbone underwear.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
He was famous for those entrances. Went was seventy six
years old. And now let's get right to Vicki Palladino,
New York City Council. She represents District nineteen of Northeast Queen.
So much to talk to you about. Let's start with Cuomo.
What is your reaction.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
My reaction is, I'm not surprised. You know, we have
to move forward Cuomo. Cuomo threw his hat in the ring,
knowing that he's got a basketful of stuff that needs.

Speaker 6 (03:07):
To be gone through.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
I don't know why he would think anything other than
the DOJ coming after him. The people are angry. Still,
this is not going away. You know, like I said
in the past, you know whatever Cuomo has only just happened,
and what we've got happening here, with the fifteen thousand

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suicide murders that will happened during COVID's it lays at
his feet. So I'm not surprised. I mean, this DJ
is going hard. Larry, No, they.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Are going hard, and I feel for those families. I
know this won't be enough for them, but it's something
they are out there in mass at Andrew Cuomo appearances,
trying to get attention for their cause, trying to get
somebody care. They believe, as you mentioned, they believe they
their loved one was killed by Andrew Cuomo, and they

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want to be heard. They want to be heard, they
want to be heard. Finally they're being heard. So VICKI,
more than anything else, I'm happy for them that they
they have a feeling they at least have a shot
at justice now, I hope.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
So let's see what happens. I mean, he's in the
first place for the Democratic line from mayor, and then that, uh,
that Tommy what's his name, Zoe Ran he is right
behind him in second place. This is a real mess. Uh, Larie,
this is we have the first time in my lifetime
probably yours too. Have you ever seen such a disaster

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of people candidates running for mayor of the City of
New York. You know, we have u Curtis now on
the Republican line. He's picking up speed and this there's
clear if Curtis could get himself out there, raise the
money that he needs in order to be in the
front as far as media goes, he may be the

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answer that we're looking for. As far as finally being
able to and no pun intended, straighten the shit.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, and he actually has a chance because of the
first of all, because of the rank choice voting, but
also because this is going to be split between four candidates.
There's going to be four significant candidates running, and if
he can pull twenty five to thirty percent, that might
be enough.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
That's that is correct, And we've been following that pretty closely.
And you know, I hosted a fundraiser for him last
week and we did very well, which I'm happy to say,
but listen, you know these other guys Grubhub dropped a
million dollars on Cuomo's heads last week also, so no,

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we need Courtesyed's money and people need to get out
there and donate because this is the first time, the
first time, like you said, because of the split vote,
there's actually a path pathway, uh to this. Cuomo's got
everybody breathing down his neck. It's not a clear path.
You got do Ran, who will be on the Working

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Families party line, and then you got Eric Adams, and
Eric and I may not have agreed on a lot
of things while he was mayor, uh, but now he's
got Randy Mastro as the first deputy mayor. So, Uh,
there's been a ray of light coming through and I
think that Eric is really ready to grow a spine

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and really stand up and stop blowing in the breeze.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
So we've got two independent candidates in Curtis and in
Eric Adams, we'll have Zoe Ran, We'll have Cuomo and uh,
let's see this is this is the life of our
city is at stake. The life of our city is
at stake, and it's no joke. So you know, I'm
taking this extremely seriously.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, and zurin Mom Donnie, he's taken some incoming now
too for anti Semitism. Apparently he didn't sign on to
an annual resolution for the Holocaust Remembrance Day and he said,
you know, he just missed the vote. Well, they did
some investigating and he hasn't signed on for four years.
That's not just missing the vote, that's a statement.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
Now he met, he's met with the leader of Hamas.

Speaker 7 (07:27):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
This is sitting state assemblyman, which if you want to know, well,
we're going to talk about AOC and the crime jump
in her district.

Speaker 7 (07:36):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
He is one of the state assemblymens in her district.
So we've got people who have uh, he's he's genuinely
filled with hate. He wants uh, not just the anti Semitism,
he hates everything pro American. Okay, everybody's got to understand
that these are people that we are growing, we are

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nurturing who lives here in New York who are anti
Western civilization. They cannot take, they cannot stand us.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Absolutely, Yes, I get it is shocking that he gets
away with this kind of stuff. I want to make
sure I get in the taught to talk about Alexandria
Ocassio Cortes. When you see her district and how it's
suffering right now as she's traveling the country on private jets,
it should make people in that district angry.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Should make everybody very angry. We've had enough alc tips
into my district, parts of white Stone, Malba, and all
of College Point, but she goes as far up north
as Hunts Point.

Speaker 6 (08:40):
She goes.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
Our district is enormous, Congressional District fourteen. But what we
need to understand here, too, Larry, is circle back to
local politicians, our state senators, our state assemblymen, as well
as our city council. You know, when you've got people
as progressed of as what we have like in Zoe

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and he falls into our district.

Speaker 8 (09:05):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
We have others such as Kaban, we have uh what's
the name, uh Krishnan who's an assemblyman. We've got Ayela
who is also a councilwoman. We've got such progressive people
that surround her. These are our locals. These are the
ones who decide up in Albany what's gonna happen to us?

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And these are people in my council that we've got
to think about what's going to happen to us here
in the city. Uh. I like to call aoc an
avatar of sorts.

Speaker 9 (09:40):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
She is the congresswoman. If I'll tell you this, and
you probably would know this, if I were ever a
congresswoman of a district, of any district, I would be
calling in all my local state and city officials and
I would be having a meet a sit down with them,
because I would be in my district at the very

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least once to twice a month. Well, where as she
stretches from the Bronx all the way here into Queens
part of my district. I would host two major meetings
with the different assemblymen and council people.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well, I feel the campaign coming. Vicki Palladino for Congress.
I'm all for it. I'm all for that. It would
be wonderful. Thanks a lot, Vicki, Thanks a lot, Vicki Fallardino.
Council will appreciate it. It was take your Child to
Work Day at the White House, and one little girl
stole the show when she got a chance to ask

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a question at the press briefing. Plus tickets to see
The Brotherhood of Rock to her at a twenty five. Well,
the competition is hot and heavy for a mentee in
the morning T shirt, the big beautiful T shirt that
everybody seems to want to get in on the competition.
You just have to leave a very thoughtful clever. A
lot of things can win informative talkback and then we

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have a whole academy that decides who is the winner
of the day and they hand it to us in
an envelope at the end of the show. If you
want to take part, you go to seven to ten
WLR on the iHeartRadio app and you look for the
talkback feature. This first one, I want to set up
a little bit because we have been paying honor to
this morning, and remembering George went who played Norm on

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Cheers for oh so many years, and he was famous
every show for making an entrance where everybody in the
bar said Norm, and then he had a very clever line,
and usually it was an answer to a question like this.

Speaker 7 (11:43):
Hey, what's happened to Norman?

Speaker 4 (11:45):
As a doggy dog? Worlds Emmy and I'm more in
milk phone underwear.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
So that's what he did every single show, and that
led to a very clever talkback.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Larry walks into a bar, Larry, what do you say?

Speaker 6 (11:59):
Larry?

Speaker 4 (11:59):
I talked for today? Why should I have to say
anything else?

Speaker 10 (12:05):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
I know that was very good. Yeah, definitely a contender,
Absolutely a contender. Now we have a talkback not only
about Joe Biden, but about Andrew Cuomo.

Speaker 11 (12:17):
Four of the last five years Joe Biden was in power.
That is why charges are only being brought against Cuomo
right now.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Exactly, Well, that's absolutely the case. They never would have
brought well, they wouldn't have brought charges against another Democrat. Now,
we just had Vicky Palladino on talking about AOC's district.
Then that got a.

Speaker 7 (12:40):
Talkback aocs district has been suffering for some time now,
and they still poke her in. When I look at
that district, I see lifelong Democrats that don't think. I
guess it is the only thing I can come up with,
because why they keep voting her back in when she's

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not doing her job?

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Well, that is the question of the day. Why do
any of the democratics when when they're ruining their districts,
when they're ruining the country, when they're ruining their states.
I mean, take a look at the states across the country.
It's really easy to see the states that are profiting
and the states that aren't. One's red and one's blue.
It was take your child to Work day at the

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White House and that led to some interesting questions in
the press room. Not only did members of the press
bring their kids, but White House staffers came into the
briefing room so their child could ask a question his
don Comb's favorite president besides himself?

Speaker 12 (13:46):
A good question because it would be probably himself. No,
I think that perhaps he would say George Washington. I
know he speaks very highly of George Washington, who was,
of course the first president of our great country, and
he has his big beautiful portrait hanging in the oval

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office above the firepot.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Now, as I said, some staffers went into the room too,
so their kids could ask questions. And one person asked
Caroline Levitt, the press secretary, what is your favorite news outlet?
And everybody left and she said, immediately, I can tell
you're a staff kid, not a journalist. Honestly is she said,

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it all depends on the day. And here's another one.
These are questions that they don't normally get asked, and
they're actually a really fascinating question. They said, what is
Trump's favorite food? And Caroline Levitt said he likes to
eat a big, beautiful steak. Another questioner wanted to know
what is Donald Trump doing about climate change? Now you

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can tell when some of these questions were actually from
the kid and when some of them were from the
parent who was trying to get a question in. And
she said, what is Donald Trump willing to do about
climate change? Well, that's a very good question, she said,
and she paused for a second, and then she went
on to talk about how the president cares very much

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about the environment. Thanks so much for your talkback, Keep
them coming now. Jacqueline carl with the eight to thirty
News Jacquelin Hey Larry.

Speaker 8 (15:22):
President Trump wants a missile defense system that he calls
the Golden Dome up and running in three years. He
outlined his plans for the missile defense system and an
announcement from the Oval Office alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
and A pro Palestinian protest is planned just outside of
Columbia University today as the school holds its commencement ceremony.

Speaker 13 (15:43):
During a separate ceremony on campus Tuesday, the interim Columbia President,
Claire Shipman was greeted with booze when she was at
the podium and then chance of free march mood could
be heard loudly. They are referring to the Columbia grad
and pro Palestinian activist who was arrested by Ice earlier

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in the year and is being detained. Columbia has been
in the spotlight for pro Palestinian protests and is working
with the Trump administration and making some changes in order
to get back federal funding following last year's protests.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
I'm Scout Pringle wr News, So.

Speaker 8 (16:18):
Now I have a list of the best movie soundtracks
of all time. Can you guess one of the top
three Grease. That would be a good guess, but it's
not in the top three. I'm gonna start with number one.
See if you can guess it in a few notes.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
We were just talking about Lion King yesterday.

Speaker 8 (16:42):
That's wonder Yeah, The Lion King has been named the
greatest movie soundtrack ever, according to a new survey by
survey by seventy two point.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Could I take another guess? Yeah, go ahead, Saturday Night Fever.
Why I sounded like I set up, didn't it?

Speaker 8 (17:00):
Number two? Yeah, the Disney classic beat out Night Fever.
That's coming in at number two, Saturday Night Fever. And
have about the third? Larer a you gonna go for
a third?

Speaker 1 (17:09):
I'm out of guesses Titanic song.

Speaker 8 (17:19):
I'm surprised Titanic comes in third now. The research is
in honor of Dolby Laboratory sixtieth anniversary and also ask
which movie sounds have left the most lasting impression The iconic.

Speaker 14 (17:36):
Oh yeah, Jaws for a Memorial Day.

Speaker 8 (17:42):
I know.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Nobody's going it's gonna be too cold.

Speaker 8 (17:45):
That's from Jaws. In case we didn't mention that. Yeah,
I know it is probably not the best time to
play the Jaw soundtrack, because oh that ruined. When I
was a little kid, I would only worry about like
like crabs biting my toes. Then I so that movie
and I was like, oh my god, no one told
me about these big things. What on earth? But yeah,

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so that's I thought that was kind of fun.

Speaker 10 (18:08):
It was good.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
That was really nice. Thanks a lot, Jacqueline carl Is
Mayor Adams already bracing for a loss. It sounds like it.
We'll let you hear it for yourself when we come
right back. Hey, Natalie, you live in New Jersey. Have
have you seen this huge billboard with a good looking
guy in glasses and he's got a bow tie on.

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It's huge, It's it's real big. His his head's real
big on the billboard.

Speaker 14 (18:34):
I know exactly who you're talking about. And I know
that because he has the best smile he does when
I passed my micall, look at that happy guy.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
You think he was an orthodonist, but he does orthopedics.
But yeah, no it is. And I searched it because
I've seen it so much. I searched it and it
turns out it's one of the top searches from New
Jersey on the internet right now, really, so we're not
the only ones that searching his company. So it's it's
kalortho dot com. That's the site you're supposed to go

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to see it. And I was surprised. So look at
I got some problems from playing sports all my life.
Like one time in the basketball court, my knee just
froze up. I mean, I couldn't bend it. I've actually
fell to the floor and I've never gotten it fixed.
So I'm looking at what he does. So it's kale,
shoulder and elbow center. He's got all these different centers.

(19:27):
He's got a knee center, a hip and knee center.
So yeah, actually if there's like four or five.

Speaker 14 (19:33):
But I'm falling apart, I'm actually glad to hear yours
came from some great sporting expedition because mine is from
just a stupid fall. I had a shoulder problem and
it was you know, I'm so embarrassed. I'm like, oh,
what's the problem, Like, I fel I fell coming out
of the shower.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
I don't know how.

Speaker 14 (19:52):
I can't say I was going up and down to
basketball court.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh that's typical, though, I wasn't going up and down.
This was just practice and all of a sudden, my
my knee froze up. So that was the end of
basketball for me. But maybe maybe this guy, maybe doctor Cale,
can get me back on the court if I go
to him. Anyway, it's Calortho dot com. Yeah, stop stop,
A guy can dream, Kenny, Yes you should anyway. Yeah,

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so let me know if you see that billboard, because
it's all over all. I've never seen so much of
one billboard. It says like everywhere you drive there's his
smiling face. It's a nice face. And as you said,
he's got a nice smile. But it's everywhere. Let's get
your your talk back. Say, as we said, the competition
right now is hot and heavy because who wouldn't want

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that T shirt? Of course, everybody wants the mente in
the Morning t shirt. It's hot right now.

Speaker 11 (20:45):
Tony from Massapequa Park one two three AOC, tell me
what you done for me? One two three AOC, Tell
me what you done for me?

Speaker 1 (20:57):
They should say that in her district. Have you I've
seen any videos of her district? It is it's like
a third world country. It's like la Is right now.
It is pretty darnbad. I mean it gets embarrassing. Hey,
by the way, I neglected to tell you who the
winner is. And it's really important we do this, and
I'll tell you why that is in a second. So

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congratulations to John van Heast from Glen Rock, New Jersey.
They want a pair of tickets to I say they
so the surprise is coming up. They just want a
pair of tickets to see the Brotherhood of Rock Tour
starring Styx, Ario Speedwagon lead singer Kevin Cronin and former
Eagle Don Felder at the PNC Arts Center on July seventh.

(21:44):
Tickets on sale now at ticketmaster dot com. You have
another chance to win tomorrow at age twenty five. And
how about this, Happy birthday to John's wife, Alice. Now,
don't let him get away with saying this is your exactly.
He has got to go out and get you something else.

(22:05):
This is a present from me. This is my birthday
present to you. John's got to go get his own.
So but anyway, happy birthday, Alice. I hope you have
a wonderful time at the concert, and I hope you
have a wonderful birthday today. All right, let's start talking
about I think we played enough talkbacks for now. Let's
start talking about Air Adams because he said something surprising

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and that was about the election, and really it just
seemed like it came out of nowhere about running and
possibly losing and the fact that he's not doing well
in the polls and he can't he doesn't qualify for
matching funds, so he's underfunded and he's polling extremely poorly
right now. Well, he was in the in the Democratic primary.

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Then he switched over to an independent. But one of
the reasons he switched over is because he wasn't doing
well and he is in the incumbent, so people know
it's not like he has to have name recognition. They
just don't want him back. And I think a lot
of that, I know the poll show this too. A
lot of that is because of what happened with Donald

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Trump and his affiliation to Donald Trump, which really I
don't understand because what does he work with Donald Trump
on getting criminals out of the city. But it doesn't
matter there is the left brain is so warped and
so much affected by this hatred for Donald Trump. It

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doesn't matter if it makes the city better, if it
makes life better, if it makes the country better. Well,
his trip over to the Middle East, if it makes
the world better, that doesn't matter. It's Donald Trump, and
in their warped, sick mind, nothing he does can be
good and ned rather have the city suffer, communities go

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through crime and open border than have Donald Trump in charge.
That's their number one issue. And so when a candidate,
especially a Democrat, is a fix to Donald Trump, then
they get bad poll numbers because that's the number one
issue for the Democrats. You hear it from the Democratic
candidates all the time. Most of them are just running

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on that. Anything against Donald Trump, they're going to run
on and they think they're gonna win. But they didn't
last time, so maybe they should find something new. But anyway,
here's what Mayor Adams said when he was asked about
the election.

Speaker 15 (24:31):
Now, I'm the mayor of the most important city on
the globe. Who cares what happened next turn? You know,
who cares. I've reached everything I ever thought I can
reach in life, you know, And so what happens next
term is going to be fine. I'm going to be fine.
I'm going to be great.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, Donald Trump will probably hire him, but that is
it's amazing that he is coming to peace with that now,
because I know a lot of candidates very personally that
never get over losing an election. It's like the voter
said to you, we don't love you. You know what
I mean. It's a breakup because you go into it thinking, well,

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we've talked to Laura Current about this, that's exactly what
she said. She said, it's like losing a boyfriend. I mean,
you really go through this horrible period afterwards in public, Yes,
in public it is that personal you are You're rejected
by the people that you counted on. He also talked

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about anti Semitism, which has risen now as an issue
in the city and in the election because of Zorin
mom Danni, who for four years in a row would
not vote for and everybody votes for this, vote for
a resolution to support Israel. And you know, he tried
to explain it away, but Mayor Adams had this to.

Speaker 15 (25:53):
Say, any candidate that doesn't recognize the Holocaust is real.
That raises a real red flag. I was in Krakow
poling and walk through the camps, and walk through the
camp as I stated, and so whomever believe it's not real,
maybe they should take a visit to see.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Now it was Politico who did the reporting on this,
and Zorin Mamdania has put out a statement saying it's
a baseless accusation and the politico falsely claimed I refuse
to condemn the Holocaust, and he says no I have.
So there you go. Which iconic Manhattan street might soon

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be off limits to drivers? WRS. Natalie Migliori will let
us know on her Beat on the Street coming up
next Now.

Speaker 8 (26:46):
He's seventeen WRS.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliori. Oh no, not again.
Another street's gonna shut off to traffic in New York.
That is the subject of Natalie Migliori's Beat on the Street.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
Natalie, Yeah, good morning, Larry. Thirty fourth Street in Manhattan
could soon be a no go zone for cars. The
New York City Department of Transportation wants to make the
entire strip between Third and Ninth Avenues a busway. Riders
and drivers reacting to that proposal, I think.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
It might be a good plan because it's such a
congested area for shopping and everything, so it might make
it easier.

Speaker 10 (27:29):
It's just like on Fourteenth Street.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
I mean you're trying to eliminate the traffic, but then
what about people who have to drive here?

Speaker 16 (27:34):
Then that's gonna be worse. It's like shutting down Eighth Avenue,
and we all know like whatever happens, like every time
they shut down even a street that the traffic gets messed.

Speaker 10 (27:42):
Up, it would be useful and quicker. The possibility of
that happening very slim because Manhattan maintains a lot of
business and industries. So in this case, everybody uses a
lot of their cars.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
More.

Speaker 6 (27:56):
Yeah, right now, thirty fourth Street has a designated lane
heading in each direction, but the new design would eliminate
cars from this stretch of road entirely and only give
access to delivery trucks as needed for local deliveries or
local drop offs. This New Yorker lives along a busway
on one ed first Street and says this idea should

(28:19):
remain just that an idea.

Speaker 9 (28:21):
That's a big problem because only vans can pass and
bus assess it. Nothing else, no cars, Because I know
my sister in lawn and my sons they have cars,
and they gotta go all the way around, all the
way to one seventy ninth Streets, and so they could
get into the highway. That's ridiculous.

Speaker 17 (28:38):
Think about this one second, thirty fourth, forty, second, eighty six,
or all main streets right, Why would you take away
cars ability to go down the main street. I would
rather the cars go down the main street to cut
across the city than to go through the neighborhoods of
regular streets.

Speaker 6 (28:58):
Now, the busway be modeled after the one down by
fourteenth Street Union Square, which first opened in twenty twenty.
But New Yorkers say it's not the cars along thirty
fourth Street. Would me, asked me if they think this
is one of the city's attempts to go car free completely.

Speaker 10 (29:15):
The bus do their own schedule, They come whenever they want.
I don't think the cars are what the effect they aim.

Speaker 16 (29:20):
They are trying to force card, but they're not gonna
be able to because no matter how much price they're
gonna put, if you gotta get to a certain point,
you gotta get there.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
It is what it sounds like it.

Speaker 10 (29:29):
Yeah, if they do that, it would be definitely a
car free city, would it. How would most people use transportation?
I guess without uncertainty, they would have no choice if
they need to get to work, they would have to
use the transportation no matter what.

Speaker 6 (29:42):
Now it all comes as the Trump administration's deadline for
the NCAA to end congestion pricing hits today. You know,
there have been so many deadlines for that to end. Lowry,
even though arguments are still playing out in court. Drivers say,
that's another way the city is driving out the working person.

Speaker 17 (30:02):
I don't think it worked. I think they really need
to come up with a better solution congestion.

Speaker 11 (30:07):
Do you need it?

Speaker 17 (30:08):
I think so because pollution is going up. But it's
not a well thought out plant. I think it's really
really destroying the city itself.

Speaker 16 (30:17):
To me, it's just a rip off. Like we're paying
for the road twice we build this road, so why
are we paying again. Everything they make is just to
make a way of making more money off those hard
working people. It's as simple as you can get, like
the congestion price. What is the congestion price so rich
people can go through freely?

Speaker 6 (30:36):
Yeah, and there you have it.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
Larry.

Speaker 6 (30:38):
A lot of people saying the people who said yes
about the busway just said that maybe they thought that
it would move faster, But a lot of people really
kind of thinking critically very early in the morning about
what a busway would actually mean for thirty fourth Street.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yes, they keep cutting off streets, they keep putting dining
in streets. They do. They're so anti car in this city.
Why don't they come out and ban cars except for
rich people. They should just come out and say what
they want to do, because that's what all of this does,
and it gets fear. You can have congestion pricing or
you can close streets. If you do both, it's suspicious, right.

Speaker 6 (31:16):
And then the other thing too is figure about the
bike lanes. A lot of people this morning off We
didn't get to touch on that because it kind of
would veer off of it, but a lot of people
just saying, even the bike lanes are something else that
sort of gets cut into. Cars driving in the streets
gets in the way. It's just definitely something between public transit,
congestion pricing, cutting off the streets, bike leans. People want

(31:38):
to know, what more are they going to do?

Speaker 1 (31:40):
They don't want cars, you know what, they want some cars.
They want the cars to take the rich people to
the Broadway shows. They don't want the people, the nurses,
they want them to take. They don't want the construction workers.
They want them to take public transit. The streets aren't
for them.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
Congestion pricing, Larry.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Well, yeah, I do every day, so does Natalie, so
does everybody has to drive in.

Speaker 11 (32:04):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah, they don't want us here. That's the uh, that's
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