You have a great memory! Guy” Molinari, Mike Long, Bill Buckley for Mayor! all a last gasp for sanity in NYC (save for Rudy).
Stalinist Sandy sits in what was once the “Archie Bunker District” (Astoria/Jackson Heights). Most of those folks (the White working class/White ethnics) have since died off or moved away. My mother and her family lived in that district until the ‘70s.