Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability at City Hall on April 13, 2021. Photo by Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office By Jacob Kornbluh July 19, 2022 Hours before former Mayor Bill de Blasio abruptly dropped out of a crowded Congressional primary in Brooklyn, he spent the evening fielding questions from a dozen Orthodox voters about Israel, yeshiva education and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic in Hasidic neighborhoods. During the house party, over strawberries and ice cream at the Borough Park residence of Alex Rappaport, head of Masbia Soup Kitchen, de Blasio said his handling of a slew of...