There’s a reason it’s Jenny from the block, not Jenny fresh off the boat.
Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was hopping mad when pop singer and actress Jennifer Lopez dared to define what makes a New Yorker.
‘Everybody wants to claim our city.’
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“Everybody wants to claim our city, but you have to be born in New York. You have to be born in one of the five boroughs to be a New Yorker,” Lopez said.
Purity test
Lopez’s offhand comments, which she made while appearing on “SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma,” prompted the Democrat former mayor, who led the city from 2014 to 2021, to call Lopez’s definition “absolutely outrageous.”
“There is no purity test,” de Blasio claimed — asserting that New York is the “ultimate city of
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