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Mayor de Blasio with newly-elected City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, on Friday. De Blasio, who is 6 feet 5, found himself in an unfamiliar position Saturday at the City Council inaugural ceremony Saturday for the nearly 7-foot-tall Cornegy.
For once, Mayor de Blasio had to look up to a fellow pol.
The 6-foot-5 de Blasio found himself in an unfamiliar position Saturday at the City Council inaugural ceremony for the nearly 7-foot-tall Robert Cornegy Jr.
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The mayor at one point joked that he could barely see Cornegy’s predecessor, Al Vann, who was seated behind the political giant.
“I want to look him in the eye, but I can’t,” said de Blasio, speaking at the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Brooklyn.
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“Robert, you’re doing that tall thing again. You are being extremely tall.” The towering de Blasio, who is almost always the tallest man in the room, couldn’t stop talking about Cornegy’s stature.
“I’d like to say I could see Al during the standing ovation but I was blocked once again by Rob Cornegy,” he joked.
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“Rob Cornegy is beginning to bother me . . . It says here in my notes you have big shoes to fill. I’m just not going there.”
Several prominent Democrats were also on hand, including U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Public Advocate Letitia James, Controller Scott Stringer and City Council Speaker hopeful Melissa Mark-Viverito.
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