NEW YORK — In his weekly "Mondays with the Mayor" interview with NY1 Political Anchor Errol Louis on "Inside City Hall," Mayor Bill de Blasio discussed:

  • Preparations for the incoming nor'easter
  • The city's use of metal detectors and schools agents, after 5 guns were recovered in schools last week
  • Religious exemption requests from people protesting the expanded COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city workers
  • Fears of a garbage pickup slowdown related to the mandate
  • Taxi drivers' hunger strike denouncing the city's plan to alleviate medallion debt as insufficient
  • The death of "Taxi King" Gene Freidman

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