Time to break up NYC into five or more separate cities.
...run by five Italian families, perhaps?
jk
Every city should carved up into self governed areas like suburbs.
Five times the govtard fun.
Providing split services for all those areas would be a true nightmare.
Brooklyn was originally a separate city.
Sort of. The boroughs are technically counties, and by state law, each county must have a county executive. But the boroughs have no power,so the county executives, called Borough Presidents, sit in Borough Hall collecting a salary and plotting a run for mayor. They have a few ceremonial duties, and that’s it.
What New York needs is a good dose of devolution. Devolve a lot of power on the boroughs (counties.) Why have a massive school district with so many kids in it when you can have five? Perhaps they could have their own sanitation contracts, and perhaps even a borough police department to complement and partially take over for the great NYPD.
This would also have the benefit of mitigating the power of the city public employee unions.
It would bring government closer to the people, and you could find out if that person sitting in Borough Hall is actually competent to be mayor.
It would require rewriting the charter, but it would be worth it.
It already is, hence the Boroughs.
Mark