John Lindsay was hit with a transit strike shortly after he took office. Then came the teachers’ and sanitation workers’ strikes. Lindsay, who got elected largely on his looks, was a lot like Mamdani and now has a reputation as a terrible mayor.
“sanitation workers”
In Turin & Genoa, huge containers are placed out on the streets for recyclables, organic compost and to the dump trash.
I was there for those ‘fun’ Lindsay years. The only good thing about them was the disco music.
Crime went through the roof and NY went broke. The big Blackout and the smashing of the store fronts, looting. People were always saying how bad he was.