I'm not here as the mayor, I'm here as a parent, as a father.

We want to make sure the public servants who power our city can afford to live in our city, which is why we are going to double the city’s affordable housing preference for our extraordinary city employees.

Too many military veterans still struggle with housing insecurity. If you served our country abroad or on a military base, you should be able to find an affordable place to live back home; that is why we are going to make military veterans eligible for these homes as well.

We must live in the spirit of Officer Islam and what he stood for and what he will always stand for and what he fought for.

As a lifelong public servant, I know first-hand the sacrifices that our city employees make every day to keep our streets safe, teach our children, help families save money, and deliver every day for 8.5 million of their fellow New Yorkers.

It is time to turn the corner of a society where automatic weapons are as easy to get as a cellphone. We need to rethink who we are as a society, that there is a comfortability to carry an illegal weapon of this magnitude.

He appeared to have blamed the NFL for his injury.

The response of our police officers, I believe, saved many lives.

By rejecting the land use application for this casino bid while approving three others in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn, the City Council is putting its finger on the scale — and this is precisely the type of action that leads New Yorkers to lose faith in their elected leaders.

He was determined to do harm, and in a law enforcement approach, that is something extremely challenging.

This senseless act of violence, as the police commissioner and I walked through the building, we saw the blood trails and the videos. And the level of violence … I have not witnessed at that level before.