Source: New York Post
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pick for top Big Apple lawyer on Wednesday praised the administration’s “extraordinarily high-level” handling of the current deadly cold snap — even as the death toll climbed to 17 people. Testifying before the City Council’s Rules Committee for his approval to become the city’s corporation counsel, Steve Banks was pressed by Speaker Julie Menin on how he would advise the fashionably-focused mayor during future extreme weather events. “What I have seen is exactly what should be happening, which is adhering to the state law to evaluate people, bring them inside when the state law permits people to be brought inside, continually to engage people,” said Banks, who served as the former Department of Social Services commissioner under Mayor Bill de Blasio.
