The city’s sanitation commissioner was forced Wednesday to defend Mayor de Blasio’s absence from a news conference about a looming and “very dangerous” snow storm.
“I believe the mayor’s doing radio right now about the winter storm, and will be doing television later today,” Commissioner Kathryn Garcia said during a news conference at the Spring Street Salt Shed in Manhattan.
Garcia offered up the excuse at 2:40 p.m., nearly a half-hour after de Blalsio was supposed to speak live on WCBS 880 radio at 2:14 p.m., according to a schedule released by City Hall earlier in the afternoon.
The mayor’s press secretary, Eric Phillips, also said de Blasio was conducting “a Spanish-language television interview at the same time.”
“Before and after that he was running city government, which involves more than showing up for snow press conferences,” Phillips added.
The blizzard could dump up to 12 inches of snow on the Big Apple, officials said.
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