Azi and Anna Assess the Mayoral Field

Tom Allon, Adolfo Carrión Jr., John Catsimatidis, Joseph Lhota and George McDonald at the Republican mayoral debate and breakfast forum that was held at the Roosevelt Hotel on March, 6 2013 by Crain’s

The election season is heating up, with a full slate of Democrats and Republicans trying to raise as much cash as possible in advance of the primaries. WNYC reporter Anna Sale and Azi Paybarah, political reporter for Capital New York, talk about the latest developments. Plus: What the recent unrest in East Flatbush around the shooting of Kimani Gray says about the state of community relations and the Bloomberg policing legacy. WNYC's Stephen Nessen joins briefly from East Flatbush to describe the community's reactions. 

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