Remember Dr Martin Abend's political debates on channel 5? What would he say about nyc in the 21st century? :-)
I only vaguely remember those debates. I might have been watching Creature Feature or Million Dollar Movie when they were on...
I've never seen a great divide between Republicans and Democrats in the city. That's why there's so much jumping around between parties and cross-party endorsements. Pols are somewhat limited in what they can do.
Word on the street is that with the re-election of Markowitz in Brooklyn, the stadium goes through Robert Moses style.