Posted on March 12, 2014 by Caroline Bankoff in New York Magazine New York Magazine, By Caroline Bankoff During his first couple months in office, Mayor de Blasio, who, while running for office, pledged to work to ease New York’s homelessness problem, has taken some steps toward fulfilling his promise: First, there was the symbolic gesture of having Dasani Coates, the subject of Andrea Elliot’s harrowing New York Times “Invisible Child” series, play a role in his inauguration.