NEW YORK — For the second time in two months since leaving City Hall, former Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he is not running for public office, saying Tuesday he would sit out a congressional run in his local Brooklyn district.
“Back in January, I made a decision to focus on advocating for policies that would continue to drive down income inequality in New York,” de Blasio tweeted. “I’m going to stick with that decision — it was the right one then and it remains so.”
The congressional district, New York’s 11th, was redrawn this winter by the ruling Democrats in Albany. The district, which includes right-leaning Staten Island, now cuts north into Brooklyn and through de Blasio’s Park Slope neighborhood.
