Fear of “violent crime” in the city almost made the mother of one freshman Democratic councilmember skip her son’s inauguration ceremony in Manhattan.
Erik Bottcher (D-Manhattan) said his mom, who lives in his upstate hometown of Wilmington, worried about traveling to the Big Apple for his official swearing-in ceremony on Saturday, according to The Village Sun.
“She said, ‘Erik, am I gonna get hit?’” the pol described during a Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce town hall last week.
“That just makes me want to cry,” lamented Bottcher, whose district covers Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen.
His district also contains Times Square, where straphanger Michelle Go was killed.
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