The elderly woman Mayor Eric Adams compared to a 'plantation owner' at a townhall meeting on Wednesday is a longtime tenant rights advocate whose family fled the Nazis.Jeanie Dubnau, 84, said she attended the community conversation at a school in Upper Manhattan because she thought residents would be allowed to voice their opinion on the Rent Guidelines Board increasing the monthly payments for one million rent-stabilized apartments in the Big Apple.She then decided to speak up, she said, to hold the mayor 'accountable' for the decision — and now claims Adams only to 'deflect' responsibility.
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