Vito Lopez's gal pal soldiered on, reporting for duty Wednesday as a city
planning commissioner despite a week of headlines about her boyfriend grabbing and harassing young women in his office.
Bratton has always indicated he'd not stay on for a second term, but first told the mayor about his
plan to imminently retire on July 8 during a conversation in the
commissioner's office, both men said today —
despite several instances since then when the pair played coy about his departure, including an interview with WNYC last week in which de Blasio dismissed it as a hypothetical.