Posted on July 23, 2015 by NYT Editorial Board in The New York Times The New York Times, By NYT Editorial Board A year and a half into his mayoralty, it’s now Bill de Blasio’s New York. So is the city starting to look like the one he promised to build, one where the poor and the working class can afford to live? It depends on where you look. Last week Mr. de Blasio went to a construction site on Summit Avenue in the Bronx to announce that in fiscal 2015, the first full year of his watch, the administration had lined up financing for more than 20,000 affordable apartments — about 8,500 to be newly built and 11,800 preserved through deals with landlords to lock in low rents for decades.
