Mayor de Blasio’s plan to close streets to traffic around Rockefeller Center to accommodate hundreds of thousands of holiday revelers who hope to catch a glimpse of its iconic Christmas tree is being blasted as “insane” by union officials who represent both firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians.
Appearing on his weekly “Ask the Mayor” segment on WNYC on Nov. 22, Mr. de Blasio explained the closing was required because the annual ritual had “gotten more and more popular” and it was “creating a real safety issue and we want to protect those folks, be they New Yorkers or folks visiting from out of town.”
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