After her letter to City Hall went unanswered, a teenager from Staten Island took to Instagram with a plea for Mayor Mamdani.
“I have only one wish, and that’s for me to get free bus rides to school next year,” 17-year-old Daeun Kim begins in the video, which published on Thursday.
Kim is about to start her final year at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts — whose alumni include actor Timothée Chalamet — in Lincoln Square next fall.
She said her parents, working-class immigrants from Korea, have had to shell out a whopping $18,270 just in bus fare to send her and her brother to public school in Manhattan over the past four years…