Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times

Mayor Bill de Blasio with Deputy Mayor Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, at a meeting on the Ebola threat on Thursday. On some other issues, the mayor has been increasingly curt.

City Hall Memo

De Blasio’s Transparency Is Turning Opaque Under Fire

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM

Faced with embarrassing questions about his wife’s top aide and other issues he finds annoying, Mayor Bill de Blasio has been replacing his promised ask-me-anything attitude with “case closed” peevishne