Some of the biggest de Blasio family decisions are in Dante’s hands.
First, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio indicated he was leaning toward living in his Park Slope, Brooklyn, home so his 16-year-old son will be closer to school.
Now it turns out that Dante gets to decide whether he’ll be assigned a police security detail like his parents.
“Dante gets a detail if he wants it. If Dante gets the detail, they will probably be driving him to [high] school,” said a law-enforcement source. “No subways.”
But if he says no to security, his father has to agree.
“If he doesn’t want it and his father says it’s okay, he doesn’t have to have it,” the source added.
Bill de Blasio will be getting a security team of about 19 officers, working different shifts, the source said.
If the new mayor decides to live in Park Slope, he will get the same security that Mayor Bloomberg did while residing at his East Side town house — “at least two officers around the clock standing in front of his home,” the source said.
His wife, Chirlane McCray will also get a security detail of at least one, and most likely two officers, as well as a car, under projected plans.
Dante’s 18-year-old sister, Chiara, is attending an out-of-state college and would not be assigned security.
Sources said that security for de Blasio would be in line with that of the protection of his predecessors.
Bloomberg’s two grown daughters didn’t live with him so the assigned protection was basically just for the mayor.