Mayor Bloomberg Updates New Yorkers on City Preparations for Hurricane Irene and Steps New Yorkers Should Take to Prepare

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—August 25, 2011. The following are Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s remarks as delivered this morning outside of St. Luke’s Baptist Church in Laurelton, Queens, where he met with residents and visited a Department of Environmental Protection crew working on preemptive flood mitigation.

“We’re joined by too many people to introduce, but this is the community’s representatives, clergy, and laymen and laywomen who live in this wonderful community, and like all of us are worried…