De Blasio ‘not satisfied’ with pace of NYCHA cameras

Sally Goldenberg

Mayor Bill de Blasio said today he's ordered his administration to install security cameras at 49 public-housing developments in the city by year's end, following last weekend's fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old boy at the Boulevard Houses complex in Brooklyn.

In an unusually harsh self-assessment, the mayor faulted his administration and that of his predecessor for its lack of urgency in installing cameras in New York City Housing Authority complexes after funding was allocated by the City Council.

"No, I have not been satisfied ... in the previous administration. I'm not satisfied, in fact, in my administration either that the urgency has been sufficient," he told reporters after a pre-K press conference in Queens. "We have given very clear orders in the last 24 hours to speed that process intensely."

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