January Mayor’s Blog – “Time to Show Up”

“Time to Show Up”

Mayor Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins

I am trying to emotionally process the fact that 8 children and 4 adults died in a three-story Philadelphia rowhome where 26 people once lived last week.  This past Sunday, 19 Bronx building residents were killed when a five-alarm blaze broke out about in a bedroom of a duplex apartment spanning the second and third floors of the 19-story tower in Fordham Heights. Our national grieving is appropriate.   But we must offer more than just thoughts and prayers.  Read the rest of the article here: