Unexpected Focus at a Mayoral Forum

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nytimes.com - by Michael M.Grynbaum - January 24th, 2013

This year’s campaign for New York City mayor was expected to turn on police tactics, education policy and economic development.

On Thursday, six of the leading candidates in the race found themselves discussing something different: mold.

The hazardous fungus, and its proliferation in homes and neighborhoods damaged by Hurricane Sandy, took center stage at a Brooklyn church during a forum on housing policy, an early clash in a race whose candidates are still looking for ways to stand out.

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