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Ex-policeman Eric Adams was elected New York City's next mayor on Tuesday and will become just the second African American to lead the United States's largest city. SOUNDBITE
New York (USA), Jun 1 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Alba Vigaray) Andrew Yang is one of the Democratic candidates with the most options to become the new mayor of New York. He prides himself on being a newcomer to politics and presents himself as the fresh blood the Big Apple needs to resurface from the pandemic as the city of opportunity that he has always been.FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF THE INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW YANG IN NYC
New York (USA), Feb 11 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Alba Vigaray) The chair occupied by Bill de Blasio, the current mayor of New York, "the capital of the world" as many New Yorkers like to call it, will be empty this year and some thirty politicians, activists and business owners have already set their sights on it: The race has only just begun.FOOTAGE OF NEW YORK.
Steven A Henry via Getty Images Scott Stringer, an early front-runner for New York City mayor, pledged to completely phase out fossil fuels, drive private utility companies out of the nation’s largest metropolis, and “electrify everything” in a near total embrace of climate activists’ demands ahead of this year’s election. The 34-page proposal Stringer laid out Sunday would transform the five boroughs, glazing the rooftops with solar panels and battery units, prioritizing bike lanes and pedestrian walkways over highways, and providing new programs to make electricity cheaper and green jobs more plentiful for the city’s squeezed working class.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).