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His first goal after being elected was to get the carriage horses out of Central Park. I was sort of hoping that would be his low point. I was wrong. He will never cease to amaze me.
He's a buffoon for sure. All he talks about is affordable housing while crime is getting out of control. Homeless people everywhere. Trains are terrible. The city even smells a lot worse with this guy. It's either homeless body odor or weed whereever you go, it's gotten so bad.
He's so freaking stupid. He wants his developer friends to build these monster apartment complexes in East New York, where 30%(?) of the units will affordable.
The problem is the complexes will gentrify the area, the rents on the nearby multi-family houses will soar, and the working-class Hispanics will be thrown out, to be replaced by Hipsters who can no longer afford northern Brooklyn.
So there will actually be a net loss of affordable housing.
His first goal after being elected was to get the carriage horses out of Central Park. I was sort of hoping that would be his low point. I was wrong. He will never cease to amaze me.
That's because he has no vision and Bloomberg left his permanent mark on the city. De Blasio isn't that creative/smart. So all he can do is superficial stuff that is supposed to be for his base but means nothing. All the industrial zones in Manhattan have been bought or developed and ditto places like Dumbo, Williamsburg, LIC, etc. Now de Blasio claims to be freezing industrial zones from further development but this only really effects places like Maspeth or Sunnyside that developers were not interested in. In short he changed nothing but he claims to be doing this to preserve working class jobs (that largely fled the city LONG ago).
I'll say it again; the only reason de Boob became mayor was that *ANY* Democrat who won the primary was going to win the general election. Persons were fed up with Napoleon Bonaparte Bloomberg after twelve years. It has been something like almost twenty years since NYC had a Democratic mayor and so the law of averages again was proven correct.
Problem was the Democratic field was so bad and the pre-anointing of that Quinn woman would have cost that them the election. Quinn sunk Liu and Weiner thinking now her way was clear; then de Boob came out of nowhere and pushed her out. He never dreamed however he would actually win until it happened. Then the man learned governing is more than making speeches and getting arrested.
Even his so called "affordable" housing schemes are mostly smoke and mirrors. Only a small percentage of units are "permanent". A majority will expire in as little as five years or by twenty. This leaves future administrations left with the task of either enticing landlords/owners to remain or finding replacements for the now "lost" affordable housing. https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/201...-are-permanent
Meanwhile de Boob is jetting all over the USA and world (on NYC rate payers dime) promoting his version of a liberal/progressive/Democratic urban utopia. A place where the wealthy will be taxed to death in order to support the poor and be happy to do so in the name of "equality".
Mayor deBlasio announced he will no longer speak to reporters. He claims he isn't paid to speak to them, but to the public at large that he serves and will only answer questions through his weekly radio program.
I too think there's a good chance he'll get reelected. NYC mayors usually do except for Dinkins and it only did happen in his case because of the crack cocaine era and it's associated crime.
Bloomberg set the city's tone in such away it will be with us for decades (not just Bloomberg but policies from Washington that remain in place) so whoever comes after de Blasio probably won't change that much dramatically either.
NYC gets people in places like John Hylan (mayor) and Moses (planner) who set in place long term policies that have very big lasting impacts on the city.
Ed Koch despite getting reelected twice did not change the direction of the city. Giuliani did, I'll give him that. Bloomberg did much more.
I have to defend Koch. Koch may have not turned the city around the way he had hoped to. However he stopped it's back slide and stabilized it enough to keep it falling into the abyss and it begin working again. We were near bankrupt when Koch was elected. If Koch wasn't beholden to the Borough presidents and party bosses more would have been accomplished. But to say Koch wasn't any good as Mayor just isn't true. He was the right guy to be Mayor at that time and accomplished far more than his successor David Dinkins did.
I'll say it again; the only reason de Boob became mayor was that *ANY* Democrat who won the primary was going to win the general election. Persons were fed up with Napoleon Bonaparte Bloomberg after twelve years. It has been something like almost twenty years since NYC had a Democratic mayor and so the law of averages again was proven correct.
Problem was the Democratic field was so bad and the pre-anointing of that Quinn woman would have cost that them the election. Quinn sunk Liu and Weiner thinking now her way was clear; then de Boob came out of nowhere and pushed her out. He never dreamed however he would actually win until it happened. Then the man learned governing is more than making speeches and getting arrested.
Even his so called "affordable" housing schemes are mostly smoke and mirrors. Only a small percentage of units are "permanent". A majority will expire in as little as five years or by twenty. This leaves future administrations left with the task of either enticing landlords/owners to remain or finding replacements for the now "lost" affordable housing. https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/201...-are-permanent
Meanwhile de Boob is jetting all over the USA and world (on NYC rate payers dime) promoting his version of a liberal/progressive/Democratic urban utopia. A place where the wealthy will be taxed to death in order to support the poor and be happy to do so in the name of "equality".
He's wasting his time there, it's not like Albany allowed him to raise any major taxes and so long as there's a conservative Democrat as governor along with a Republican state senate it isn't happening. De Blasio is largely powerless to change anything, and this is still very much Bloomberg's New York.
I started a thread after his first year, asking for readers to rank the last 5 mayors. Even after only a year, he was the clear cut winner/loser as THE WORST. The people were right back then and he has proved them right. He is the the title holder.
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