Mayor Bill de Blasio rose to power promising a new era of cultural comity in New York City, generating big expectations that he could heal longstanding urban divisions over ethnicity, money and class.
But amid a national uproar over police and race, prompted in part by the death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner, on Staten Island, New Yorkers now think race relations in their city are deeply strained. CONT.
Michael M. Grynbaum & Marjorie Connelly, New York Times