NYC emergency management chief fired over response to November snowstorm

New York Daily News: Mayor de Blasio fired the city commissioner in charge of responding to emergencies and disasters on Monday night.

Joseph Esposito — a long-serving city official — got his walking papers after hours of will-he-stay-or-will-he-go drama at the hands of de Blasio and his aides, who seemed incapable of directly firing him.

Esposito’s departure will be drawn out, said a statement from de Blasio delivered by spokesman Eric Phillips.

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