"NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — “Rude.” “Disrespectful.” “Insulting.”

Those were words used by various voters to describe Mayor Bill de Blasio’s tardiness at Wednesday’s memorial ceremony for Flight 587.

On Thursday night, one of the victims’ family members told CBS2’s Marcia Kramer a new one — chutzpah.

“They asked us to delay the moment of silence to wait until the mayor got there,” Miriam Estrella said.

It was an explosive charge about the mayor’s failure to show up on time for a memorial service commemorating the 13th anniversary of the crash of the American Airlines flight.

Estrella, who lost five family members in the crash, refused. She rang the bell starting the moment of silence at precisely 9:16 a.m., the exact moment of the crash.

“They kept telling us, ‘Wait, he’s coming. He’s coming,’ and I said, no, we’re not waiting. We’re not going to wait for him for a moment of silence. It happened at a certain time. That’s the time that we have to toll the bells,” Estrella said.

The mayor, who has racked up quite a reputation as “Billy come lately” for his chronic tardiness, offered two excuses: He took a boat that was delayed by fog, and, “I was just not feeling well this morning. I had a very rough night. I woke up sluggish, and I should have gotten myself moving quicker … (I) just woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t get back to sleep and I felt really sluggish and off-kilter this morning.”

“Everyone has had a rough night, but you have to do your job the right way,” Estrella said in response.

The tabloids had a field day with the latest incident of “DST,” or de Blasio Standard Time. And New Yorkers passing the newsstand had a lot to say.

“He’s a big boy. He should make his appointments. I make my appointments. He should make his appointments,” said Dennis Reiff of the Upper West Side. “I think it’s rude.”

“I think that’s ludicrous and crass for him to be so self-centered and not think about other people,” added Innocent Obi of the Bronx.

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I am not sure what the problem is. De Blasio is Leftist royalty and like all Leftist royalty not subject to the same rules and social conventions as are we of the common herd. That Estrella went ahead with the ceremony as scheduled was an insult to this great man.