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        <title><![CDATA[‘RHONY’ Leah McSweeney slams de Blasio over unsafe streets]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She wants the hizzoner to be history.</p><p>The newest “Real Housewife of New York,” <strong>Leah McSweeney</strong>, is so fed up with the city’s <strong>rise in crime</strong> and homelessness that she wants Mayor Bill de Blasio out of office.</p><p>“No one thinks he’s doing a good job, and he really should step down,” McSweeney, exclusively told The Post Wednesday. “His legacy will be ruining New York City for a good amount of time. He’s just in over his head.”</p><p>The 37-year-old native New Yorker and FiDi resident said she reached a tipping point earlier this month after she was nearly attacked in broad daylight while dropping her 13-year-old daughter, Kier, off at Kier&#8217;s dad&#8217;s house.</p><p>“I&#8217;m walking out of the building and there was a homeless man walking down the street who was either intoxicated or not well in some way,” she recalled of the incident on Cedar Street. “He said, ‘Do you have a dollar?&#8217; I said, ‘I&#8217;m sorry I don&#8217;t have any change’ and he went and lunged at me.”</p><p>McSweeney &#8212; <strong>who stars in the 12th season of &#8220;RHONY&#8221;</strong> &#8212; was able to jump out of the way and walked as fast as she could in the other direction.</p><p>“He was so drunk that it was easy to jump out of the way,” she said. “But what if that was my daughter? I have a f&#8211;king pubescent daughter and I’m not letting her walk down the street alone right now.”</p><p>Ever since coronavirus hit and FiDi residents cleared out, her downtown streets have grown empty, eerie and unsafe, she said.</p><p>“There really is a safety issue in our neighborhood &#8230; that&#8217;s without a doubt,” she said. “We need leadership at a top level, and, obviously, we don&#8217;t have leadership right now.”</p><p>One of her qualms with the mayor is that he refuses to open gyms, despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s <strong>announcement Monday</strong> that fitness centers can reopen.</p><p>“If businesses aren&#8217;t open, people won’t be out walking around, and if they aren’t walking around, the streets will continue to be unsafe,” she said, adding that there are safe ways to reopen gyms.</p><p>Determined to demand change, McSweeney vowed to attend a &#8220;Build the Block&#8221; meeting held by NYPD&#8217;s First Precinct Wednesday afternoon to vent her concerns.</p><p><span >&#8220;I want to know what I can do to help &#8212; that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m going,&#8221; she said.&nbsp;</span></p><p>Because unlike many of her &#8220;RHONY&#8221; colleagues &#8212; <strong>who fled to the Hamptons,</strong> including Ramona Singer &#8212; she&#8217;s here to stay.</p><p>&#8220;I refuse to leave &#8212; I&#8217;m not going to let that happen,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Instead, I want to help build this city back up again.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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