Mayor Bill de Blasio strode into his first emergency storm briefing like a brigadier leading his newly-sworn-in troops to battle to confront his first real crisis: an impending snow storm on Day One.
“We can take on any storm, anywhere,” he’d declared hours earlier. “Before you even think about the politics or anything else, the bottom line is it’s our job … First thing we do, we protect people’s lives, we keep the streets safe and clear.”
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