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The ceremony to open the new span of the Mario Cuomo Bridge whose actual opening was delayed in light of safety concerns.

A new poll out Monday shows Gov. Cuomo with a commanding lead over Cynthia Nixon in Thursday’s Democratic primary for governor. But Nixon points out that survey was done before the weekend, where we learned that the Cuomo campaign had sent flyer implying that Nixon was soft on anti-Semitism and that the new Mario Cuomo Bridge span the governor opened was quickly closed because of safety concerns. All that and more was on the table when City Limits executive editor Jarrett Murphy and Gotham Gazette executive editor Ben Max—co-hosts of the Max & Murphy Show on WBAI—joined fill-in host Juan Manuel Benitez on the Brian Lehrer Show. Listen below: