LOCALS ONLY: Jennifer Lopez's definition of a REAL New Yorker makes ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio blow his top
There's a reason it's Jenny from the block, not Jenny fresh off the boat. Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was hopping mad when pop singer and actress Jennifer Lopez dared to define what makes a New Yorker. 'Everybody wants to claim our city.' "Everybody wants to claim our city, but you have to be born in New York. You have to be born in one of the five boroughs to be a New Yorker," Lopez said. Purity test Lopez's offhand comments, which she made while appearing on "SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma,
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