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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hugs his wife Chirlane McCray at a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014. De Blasio told a packed audience Monday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that the "price of inequality has deepened." The mayor says economic inequality is closing doors for hard-working people in the city and around the country. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014. De Blasio told a packed audience Monday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that the "price of inequality has deepened." The mayor says economic inequality is closing doors for hard-working people in the city and around the country. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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FILE- In this Jan. 3, 2014 file photo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a news conference in the Queens borough of New York. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will be announcing a significant expansion of a law that requires employers to give employees paid sick days. Two sources familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak about the law until de Blasio announces it Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, say it will provide sick days for an additional 300,000 New Yorkers. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

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** FILE ** In this Jan. 3, 2014, file photo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a news conference in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, gesture toward the media as they meet at the Cardinal's residence Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, answer questions from the media following a meeting at the Cardinal's residence, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, right, reacts with a hearty laugh as he chats with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, in front of the media following a meeting at the Cardinal's residence Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, right, reacts with a hearty laugh as he faces the media with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio after the pair met at the Cardinal's residence, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, meet at the Cardinal's residence Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks with students at the Bronx School of Young Leaders at 40 West Tremont Avenue in the Bronx, NY on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. De Blasio said after school programs were useful in keeping middle school students engaged and involved, and also helped working parents by providing their children with safe places to be in the afternoons. (AP Photo/New York Daily News, Enid Alvarez/Pool)

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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2014 file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks with students at the Bronx School of Young Leaders in the Bronx borough of New York. The centerpiece of de Blasio's first year in office is to fund universal prekindergarten and expanded after-school programs for middle school students by raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers. His proposal would increase the income tax rate from 3.9 to 4.4 percent on residents who earn more than $500,000 annually.(AP Photo/Enid Alvarez, Pool, File)

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FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, William Bratton, left, speaks while New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio looks on during a news conference in New York introducing Bratton as de Blasio's choice for New York City police commissioner. Although Bratton is a proponent of the police tactic known as stop and frisk, which de Blasio says was used too much during the Bloomberg years, both men have pledged to better explain the use of the tactic and de Blasio has vowed to drop the Bloomberg administration’s objections to a pair of watchdogs - both an independent general and a federal monitor - who have been tasked with overseeing the NYPD. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)