What you need to know for Wednesday.
What to Watch For as Michael Bloomberg Debates |
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Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and current presidential candidate, seems to have put a campaign ad on every television channel, radio station and website in recent weeks. |
Tonight, voters will hear from him directly as he joins five other Democratic candidates for a debate in Nevada. |
This is Mr. Bloomberg’s first political debate in more than a decade; his last one, as a candidate for mayor, was in 2009. |
What viewers can expect to hear from Mr. Bloomberg |
He will get questions about his lavish campaign spending — $400 million so far — and is likely to have a ready answer. |
In mayoral debates, he defended this spending, much of it on wall-to-wall ads, by saying he was simply offering voters a chance to hear his record. |
And Mr. Bloomberg has said in his ads that by self-financing his campaign, he is not doing the bidding of any donors — playing to voters who worry about politicians beholden to special-interest groups. |
What viewers may see from Mr. Bloomberg |
When he first ran for mayor, in 2001, Mr. Bloomberg looked bored, rolling his eyes and sighing as his opponent spoke at one of two debates in the general election. In his 2005 and 2009 debates, Mr. Bloomberg kept those gestures to a minimum. |
How Mr. Bloomberg may explain his past |
Mr. Bloomberg recently apologized for comments he made in 2015 about stop-and-frisk, the policing strategy that was found to be unconstitutional in the way it was practiced in New York City during his tenure. |
He will be asked about those comments and other remarks he’s made over the years. |
In a 2001 debate, Mr. Bloomberg was asked about quotes attributed to him, including one that characterized domestic violence as a quality-of-life crime. Mr. Bloomberg, visibly upset, responded by saying the words “were certainly said, but out of context.” |
Over the years, he has responded more calmly to such questions. For example, in 2005, he was asked about having said poor people get better health care than rich people. “Do you honestly believe those words?” his debate opponent asked. |
Mr. Bloomberg took a breath and gave his original comment a different spin. “What I was saying is I cannot tell you how proud I am of the progress our public hospitals, our 11 public hospitals, have made.” |
An early rival of Mr. Bloomberg’s will be watching |
The first Democratic politician to debate Mr. Bloomberg — then a Republican — was Mark Green. At the time, he was the New York City public advocate, and they squared off in the 2001 mayoral general election. |
“Halfway through the debate I remember explicitly saying to myself, ‘Wait, he’s hanging in there,’” Mr. Green told The Times this week. |
Mr. Green’s debate prep did not include the customary tactic of sparring with a mock opponent. Why not? Mr. Green chalked it up to “overconfidence,” because Mr. Bloomberg “was far behind and he had a very small public record at that time. And it was stupid.” |
Tonight, Mr. Green will be watching whether Mr. Bloomberg “maintains his poise under pressure.” He called the former three-term mayor a “quick study” and a “disciplined” student of government. “He’ll likely be able to fill 90 seconds of time in response to any question or criticism,” he said. |
New York’s first lady, Chirlane McCray, is starting a podcast about mental health and well-being. [New York Post] |
These candidates want to make mass transit free. [Streetsblog] |
An aerospace company withheld information that could have helped stop an environmental crisis on Long Island, according to a Newsday investigation. [Newsday] |
Events are subject to change, so double-check before heading out. For more events, see the going-out guides from The Times’s culture pages. |
And finally: Jordan Casteel’s ‘Within Reach’ |
When the artist Jordan Casteel arrived on campus as a college freshman, her mother marched her into the dining hall — not for a meal, but to greet the kitchen staff. |
They had met the president and dean, but these were the people, her mother explained, who would truly be taking care of her. |
Ms. Casteel recalled being shy, but her mother was right: The first person she approached, a baker named Betty, became a surrogate parent. “She cooked me Sunday meals, would bring me birthday cakes,” she said. |
Nearly a decade later, they still talk on the phone. “There’s really something magical that can happen when you take that risk,” Ms. Casteel said. |
This particular alchemy, the kind that begins with a nervous hello and transforms strangers into family, lies at the core of Ms. Casteel’s practice. |
“Within Reach,” her first institutional show in New York — an exhibition of nearly 40 canvases spanning seven years — opens at the New Museum today. |
Nearly 31, she has attracted widespread acclaim for colossal portraits of friends and neighbors, works celebrated for their tenderness, keen social commentary and technical brio. |
In recent series, she has portrayed her undergraduate students at Rutgers University, Newark, where she is an art professor, as well as street vendors and business owners in Harlem, where she lives with her partner, the photographer David Schulze. |
Ms. Casteel, who exclusively paints people of color, is passionate about exalting members of her community who might not otherwise see themselves on the walls of art museums. |
“I knew I wanted to use this opportunity to place my mom and I in the art historical canon,” said Emmanuel Amoakohene, one of Ms. Casteel’s students, who posed with his mother in 2019. |
The scale of the radiant, seven-foot canvas, he said, “makes me feel like I matter.” |
It’s Wednesday — take that risk. |
Metropolitan Diary: In the harbor |
I led tours of the city for many years, and the Staten Island Ferry was always a highlight of the six-hour events. |
At the start of the ride, as the waters started to churn and we pulled away from Manhattan, I would keep my group of about 30 people together, leading them to what I thought were the best spots for unobstructed views of New York’s majestic skyline. |
After a while, I would give my guests a respite from my spiel, directing them to the restrooms and snack bar, telling them which side of the boat would offer the best view of the Statue of Liberty and letting them know where we would meet when we got to Staten Island. |
We were chugging along in the harbor on one of these trips when a woman approached me. |
“Do you think we will be able to see Alcatraz today?” she asked. |
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