[Alberta's Child]

NYC runs smoothly most of the time -- or at least as "smoothly" as one can expect in city where a certain amount of chaos and disorder is normal.

The City also ran very smoothly in the aftermath of the infamous blackout of August 2003 -- and I'd hardly consider Michael Bloomberg a "heroic" or even "highly competent" mayor.

[Sabramerican]

What absurd nonsense. But par for the course for you.

If you are a New Yorker, as you pretend, then you are a fool.

Remember the Crown Heights riots, for one example.

NYC did not run smoothly prior to Giuliani- not even close. If it ran smoothly post Giuliani, more credit to the miracle he accomplished.