Thanks. Do you happen to have a link to some neutral info on that? I don't know what NYC's mayor's judge-(committee-)picking powers are, in comparison to the President's.
In NYC, there is a board that recommends to the Mayor on judges and the nominees are ranked on merit. In NYC, it would be almost impossible after so many years to have any conservatiave judge near the top of any merit system. NYC is not even close to how the President picks judges.