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He wouldn't be bad for Long Island. The quality of life is going to decline in the city if he is elected. More families will move to the suburbs and businesses will re establish suburban offices as the city will become less business friendly.
The only cause of flight to the suburbs by the middle class will be the price of rentals and real estate, those people loving in those $200M condos aren't going anywhere.
Given Long Island's dependency on NYC will a Mayor de Blasio be bad for it, or a boon if he jacks up city taxes?
Any chance that Long Island can peel some business from the city?
Or will this just be business as usual?
If de Blasio messes up New York, then you might see an additional influx of business and middle class residents into the NY suburbs, including Long Island.
However, for the city itself, I am worried about someone like de Blasio who undoing all the good work that's has been done by mayors Bloomberg, Giuliani and Koch. Its like they want the city to go back to the spending insanity of the 70s and 80s.
I'm kinda worried that De Blasio will use the suburbs as a "cash cow" for the city - return of the payroll tax for non residents (it was 0.45%) , continue to raise bridge/tunnel tolls to keep the sacred subway fares down. Hope I am wrong.
NYC always cries poverty but seems to come up with millions when it wants to (like the $$$ spent for today's marathon for instance)
Dinkins was a typical union kisser. He gave them fat money while cutting services and raising taxes. The subways were a disaster filled with dopers,drunks and thugs. Although Giuliani is an egotistical anus he at least cleaned the city up. But wait....Dinkleberry got a nice new tennis stadium for all to use. Well not all.....just the elites.
Actually you are thinking of the years prior to Dinkins. By the time he even started the subways were in far better shape. Graffiti was a thing of the past in them. He is the one that started the clean up of Times Square.
Additionally he hired Ray Kelly as his police commissioner (who was fired by Guiliani in favor of bill Bratton, who got fired in a battle of egos in favor of Bernard Kerik)
Crime hit is peak under Koch, who did a great thing by bringing the city back from the brink of bankruptcy, but was not great with battling crime.
Finally the deal that Dinkins got for the tennis center brings the city more money than either MSG, Yankee stadium or CitiField due to it being based on how much money the US open gross income is.
His biggest error (and the one that cost him the election, as it cost him the Jewish vote), was the crown Heights riot.
But even with that Dinkins only lost by 44,000 votes.
Abe Beame and Lindsay were far worse mayors than Dinkins, as was Koch, in terms of crime.
We do not know what kind of mayor DeBlasio will be yet. Only time will tell. But things are a lot different in the city than they were when Lindsay took over for Wagner, or when Dinkins took over from Koch.
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