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Oh, you could be right. Who really knows? de Blasio is a much different politician than Bloomberg though, and here in NYC that office has more executive privilege than it does in a lot of other big US cities. My parents, who are ordinarily liberal Democrat types, are very suspicious of the guy. Neither would be caught dead reading a NY paper besides the Times or the Journal and yet they constantly invoke the Dinkins comparison you read about in the tabloids...
Mr. Dinkins gets a very unfair rap by many when he actually deserves heaps of credit. Just goes to show what a deep and excellent hatchet job Rudy G. did on the man's character and record.
Koch left NYC a fiscal and crime ridden mess. Dinkins managed despite the City's poor finances to hire more police and began many of the tactics and policies that brought crime down. Rudy G ratcheted things up a notch but the petrol was already in the car so to speak.
It was Dinkins that began to work to rebrand NYC's image and luring major events such as the tennis finals in Queens.
Mr. Dinkins gets a very unfair rap by many when he actually deserves heaps of credit. Just goes to show what a deep and excellent hatchet job Rudy G. did on the man's character and record.
Koch left NYC a fiscal and crime ridden mess. Dinkins managed despite the City's poor finances to hire more police and began many of the tactics and policies that brought crime down. Rudy G ratcheted things up a notch but the petrol was already in the car so to speak.
It was Dinkins that began to work to rebrand NYC's image and luring major events such as the tennis finals in Queens.
So, so wrong. Dinkins lost control of the city - see Sharpton 125th street riots, etc. - and the tennis center fiasco cost queens several acres of public park handed over to yet another wealthy, exclusive corporation conducting events that only the wealthy could attend or afford. Flushing meadows is a park primarily used by very poor people, and they lost a good chunk of it due to that awful stadium used 2 weeks per year, just moronic planning.
The mayor cannot dictate the RS levels, a board votes on it that decides on the rate of increases.
As for RS - it should have been removed, long, long ago.
That article is over 2 months old, before he got elected
Got anything more relevant?
As a matter of fact I do not, but what's it to you?
We none of us will know what the mayor-elect will or won't do or which parts of his campaign promises he will keep or not until the man starts the job.
So, so wrong. Dinkins lost control of the city - see Sharpton 125th street riots, etc. - and the tennis center fiasco cost queens several acres of public park handed over to yet another wealthy, exclusive corporation conducting events that only the wealthy could attend or afford. Flushing meadows is a park primarily used by very poor people, and they lost a good chunk of it due to that awful stadium used 2 weeks per year, just moronic planning.
The mayor cannot dictate the RS levels, a board votes on it that decides on the rate of increases.
As for RS - it should have been removed, long, long ago.
Every analyst has called the US Open deal one of the best ever! Revenues from the Open outdo the Knicks and Rangers entire season, and I believe one other team, combined! The loss of the Open would have been economically devastating for the city!
It wasn't 125, it was Crown Heights! The buck does stop at the mayor, although NYPD bungled that badly!
Crime did start to go down at the end of Dinkins term! Two issues against Dinkins: 1) the crime decrease was during the end of his term, too late to save his re-election; 2) Dinkins' PR team, shoot, his entire party, had abandoned him when things got rough!
Now, back to RS! Whether the mayor is able to freeze RS increases is debatable, given that the guidelines board is state-run! The new mayor may have to go to the state legislature. All remains to be seen!
So, so wrong. Dinkins lost control of the city - see Sharpton 125th street riots, etc. - and the tennis center fiasco cost queens several acres of public park handed over to yet another wealthy, exclusive corporation conducting events that only the wealthy could attend or afford. Flushing meadows is a park primarily used by very poor people, and they lost a good chunk of it due to that awful stadium used 2 weeks per year, just moronic planning.
The mayor cannot dictate the RS levels, a board votes on it that decides on the rate of increases.
As for RS - it should have been removed, long, long ago.
First, the RS board has four or five members appointed by the mayor, therefore in theory that office does have great control. Just as the Democrats/Obama have packed various federal agencies with appointments deemed to toe the line to their wishes, the most recent being Mel Watts being put in charge of Freddie/Fannie Mae.
As for the tennis sector "fiasco", don't think many others see it that way. The event still goes on and brings millions in revenue each year to the City's coffers. Yes, public park land was annexed for the project but then again that happens and or is happening again all over NYC.
The Crown Heights/Al Sharpton etc... riots were the result of a powder keg that was going to be lit sooner or later. AAs and the Hasidic Jewish community of Brooklyn had been spoiling for a *fight* for some time and the death of Yankel Rossenbaum was the match that lighted the fuse.
Could things have been handled differently? Of course, but the orgy of race baiting that followed and has gone on ever since to beat down and shame Mr. Dinkins was and still is horrible.
Rent stabilization is the biggest scam going. It mostly benefits well-off people over 65 who live in Manhattan. Doesn't matter what their income is, doesn't matter if they have a house in the Hamptons.
Meanwhile, the guy on Queens Boulevard is paying $1,324.84 when the market rent is $1,330.000. So he savings 5 bucks.
So the next time a politician tells you that 1,500,000 will people will be devastated if RS is ended, he's lying - big time.
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