Keeping Up with the de Blasios: 10 Useless Facts About NYC's First Family

From Opening Day at Citi Field to the Vanity Fair party, here's what the city's most intriguing family was up to this month.

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With April came New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's 100th day in office, meaning the honeymoon is officially over. The upside is that he's handled everything thrown at him during his first three months in office with grace. New York City isn't an easy place to do anything—ask Knicks star Carmelo Anthony (who's been in the city for three years now) or recently ousted Knicks coach Mike Woodson. If he can roll with the punches (and boos), he'll be just fine.

The rest of the de Blasios were also quite busy this month. There was a rare Chiara sighting, Dante started taking the next steps towards higher learning and Chirlane joined Bill on The View's couch and the red carpet. Socialites they are not, the latter was new territory for the city's most talked about couple.

Once again, City Guide put the family under a non-intrusive spotlight, following their actions for the month with another installation of Keeping Up with the de Blasios. They're always on the move and always up to something.

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The Mayor Gets Booed Before and After Throwing First Pitch at Mets Game

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Date: 3/31/2014

Mayor de Blasio kicked off the 2014 Major League Baseball season by throwing the Opening Day pitch at the Mets game. He was met with two sets of boos: the first coming when his name was announced, the second as he exited Citi Field. He joked that the jeers were the result of the weather being colder than usual, not a response to his snow management or Red Sox allegiance. As the New York Times pointed out, the mayor is usually greeted with boos when throwing out the opening pitch:


We asked Sam Roberts, a longtime reporter for The Times, to remember first pitches gone by.


“Koch hated baseball, never stayed more than a few innings at most,” Mr. Roberts told us.


“Dinkins, of course, liked tennis most.”


“Giuliani was a die-hard Yankees fan.”


(Yet he too threw out ceremonial pitches at Mets games.)


“Bloomberg was pretty indifferent.”


“Mayors are traditionally booed,” Mr. Roberts said. “I can’t remember one that actually was cheered.”

It's only unfortunate (or hilarious, depending on your angle), because de Blasio practiced so much to avoid embarrassing himself.

You can't please everybody—especially when you're the New York City's mayor.

Bill O'Reilly Wants to Fight Bill de Blasio

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Date: 4/3/2014

The month of April brought the unsurprising revelation of de Blasio disapproval from another tall dude named Bill: Bill O'Reilly. At a fundraiser for the Church of Saint Mary, O'Reilly was overheard telling his Fox News flunkies Megyn Kelly and Brian Kilmeade that he wanted to put hands on the mayor, specifically that he wanted to "beat him up." The root of his ire? In his eyes, it's because de Blasio wants to tell the super rich what to do with their money. How dare he, right? They should just get the gloves, pick a place and throw the hands. Oh, and as O'Reilly would say, do it live.

Chiara Got Her Septum Pierced

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White People Still Skeptical About Fellow White Person Bill de Blasio

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De Blasio's Awkward Shout Out to the Bronx

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Date: 4/11/2014

Mayor de Blasio used a Google Hangout session to answer questions about his first 100 days as mayor. At one point, he expressed excitement at the potential opening of a hip-hop museum in the Bronx's Kingsbridge Armory.

He also offered an unexpected visual display of BX love that might earn him the approval Desus and Mero. It also might have exposed him as a wrestling fan, so now his tenure as mayor can be unofficially recognized as the Degeneration X era. Imagine de Blasio eschewing his usual poised demeanor and telling critics to "suck it," DX style.

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That must happen in de Blasio's New York.

Dante's College Tour

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Date: 4/13/2014

With his junior year at Brooklyn Technical High School rapidly drawing to a close, it's time for Dante to start looking at colleges. Around the middle of the month, he and his parents paid a visit to Middletown, Conn.'s Wesleyan University, a top 20 liberal arts school and the alma mater of New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick and the King of Blowing Shit up in Movies, Michael Bay.

The family stayed local the following weekend, but stepped it up a notch by visiting Columbia University. Could Dante's infamous afro be entering the Ivy League realm in the future? The mayor said his son is "very open-minded" and is eyeing "a lot of different places" following his visit to Wesleyan, so it's certainly a possibility. Wherever he goes, both he and his 'fro will be campus celebrities.

Hot 97 Encourages de Blasio to Serve Liam Neeson the Fade

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Date: 4/17/2014

The mayor appeared on Hot 97's The Morning Show to discuss his universal pre-K initiative on The Morning Show. De Blasio joined the show about 85 minutes in, and Peter Rosenberg wasted no time addressing arguably the most controversial issue of de Blasio's first three months in office: the horse-drawn carriage drama.

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After admitting that he initially thought it was a "quaint, nice part of New York City," the mayor said he finally saw the light, deciding that it "isn't humane and isn't right." Ebro suggested de Blasio do the humane thing and royally fuck Liam Neeson up. "De Blasio—kick his ass," he said. "He cannot fight like he does in those movies in real life." "You mean it's all made up in Hollywood?" de Blasio asked, facetiously. Liam Neeson is currently somewhere in the shadows, unamused.

Bill and Dante Celebrate National High Five Day

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Date: 4/17/2014

After stirring the pot of his Liam Neeson beef, de Blasio celebrated National High Five Day by giving Dante the double high five like they had just beasted on a shorter, less relevant father-son duo in a father-son pickup game.

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Also, judging by the mayor's "Friday in the office" ensemble, his jar of fucks to give is quite empty. It gets that nice when you live that life.

The De Blasios Open Up About Marriage on The View

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Date: 4/21/2014

The mayor and Chirlane McCray gave their first joint television interview since officially becoming the New York City's first couple on The View last Monday, and it was their most revealing 15 minutes in front of a camera yet, particularly when discussing their relationship. The couple, who will celebrate their 20th anniversary next month, met while working for former Mayor David Dinkins. While one of them was immediately smitten, the other hardly noticed. "I heard the angels sing, I heard the violins . . . she did not," a candid Bill de Blasio admitted. He wore her down, Steve Urkel style.

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Both de Blasio and McCray also discussed their early struggles: de Blasio being raised by a single mother and his alcoholic father committing suicide when he was in his 20s; McCray growing up in a predominantly white town where people petitioned for her family to leave. In true daytime television fashion, they credited the important people in their lives for helping them persevere. Both also revealed that de Blasio's mother was the biggest opponent to their relationship before eventually coming around and becoming who de Blasio referred to as McCray's "best friend." 

Before leaving, de Blasio showed off some of that game that eventually won McCray over, giving Walters a city proclamation naming May 16—her last day on the show—in her honor. Her reaction? "Mayor Bloomberg never did this for me!" Bill de Blasio, forever the ladies man.

Unlikely Socialites

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Date: 4/23/2014

When Mayor de Blasio and Chirlane McCray made what the New York Times described as their "social debut" at the Tribeca Film Festival's Vanity Fair party earlier this week, all eyes were on them. Yes, they were fashionably late, but this was an unfamiliar trek into red carpet territory for the city's first couple. Mike Myers (yes, Wayne's World and Austin Powers Mike Meyers) was one of the first people to talk to the mayor, and the two chatted about former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rather than box office bombs.

It wasn't all love, though: de Blasio and former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly—who he's been critical of—were reportedly just feet away from each other, but weren't seen speaking. It's like when you see someone you have mild beef with at a party, and the "Don't Start None, Won't Be None" rule goes into immediate effect. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter, because nothing says "We made it" like a picture with Sandra Bernhard.

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