A front-page New York Times article about Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray reports:
It was Ms. McCray, after all, who selected the symbolically rich location for Mr. de Blasio's speech announcing his candidacy: the yard in front of the family's humble rowhouse in Park Slope.
Humble? The Real Deal reports that Mr. de Blasio "owns a pair of two-family homes on 11th Street in Park Slope that are valued at more than $1.1 million apiece." You can bet that if Mr. de Blasio were a Republican calling for tax cuts instead of a Democrat former Sandinista activist calling for tax increases on the rich, the Times would be referring to his real estate holdings not as a "humble rowhouse" but as a "luxury townhouse."