Posted on 08/01/2007 9:10:44 AM PDT by Roberts
He is public transportation’s loudest cheerleader, boasting that he takes the subway “virtually every day.” He has told residents who complain about overcrowded trains to “get real” and he constantly encourages New Yorkers to follow his environmentally friendly example.
But Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s commute is not your average straphanger’s ride.
On mornings that he takes the subway from home, Mr. Bloomberg is picked up at his Upper East Side town house by a pair of king-size Chevrolet Suburbans. The mayor is driven 22 blocks to the subway station at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue, where he can board an express train to City Hall. His drivers zip past his neighborhood station, a local subway stop a five-minute walk away.
That means Mr. Bloomberg — whose much-discussed subway rides have become an indelible component of his public image — spends a quarter of his ostensibly subterranean commute in an S.U.V.
“I never see him,” said Namela Hossou, who sells newspapers every morning at the downtown entrance to the mayor’s nearest stop, at 77th Street, four blocks from the mayor’s house. “Never, never.”
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And at least one of the TWO SUVs (one full of armed bodyguards, perhaps?) follows him all the way to City Hall???
NEXT
The 77th street stop is HARDLY in an “undesirable neighborhood”.
It’s all PR BS.
BTW—what happens to the SUV’s after they let him off?
(They probably DRIVE to City Hall.)
Not one, but TWO king sized Suburbans.
Reality Liberal. Bloomie is like Cindy Sheehan. Sheehan's Walk From Atlanta To DC was a bus ride.
Cindy's fast was all an you can eat smoothie binge and her retirement was just a 36 day tantrum.
The level of arrogance of pulling such stunts with a straight face astounds me.
My bad; I’ll confess that I don’t know NYC well.
His ego must walk to that next subway stop. Two Suburbans aren't big enough to hold his ego.
this is inaccurate. he does not ride in a Suburban. his majesty rides in a Ford Excursion. his bodyguard detail rides in the Suburbans.
At least there is one subway car in the NYTA that is clean, the mayor’s.
He can’t join he democrat party fast enough for me. He fits right in there: lying when he KNOWS he will be easily found out and exposed to the public as a total fraud. And this is not a “lie or die” situation here - he decided to lie to make himself better, more important. Disgusting.
A true man of the people, this one!
(That said, when in NYC, I don’t ride the subway, either; I get one of the million omnipresent towncars w/ driver that every guy on busines gets, generally driven by some big Italian gomba who sweats, cusses at everything, then says “sorry” for cussing. But I don’t pretend to be a man of the people.)
He’s a hypocrite and a fascist tool.
Unless you count Bloomberg.
The subway station at 77 and Lex is also upscale : )
you’re right. see my post #9.
My husband has been getting on and off at various times of the day for 20 or so years at the 77 and Lex stop and I always wondered how it could be possible to never have seen Bloomie.
Little people like husband have to get off at Penn, take shuttle to 59th and then get on the 6 to Lex and 77 and then walk several blocks to their destination.
Last week we parked our car on 79th Street and walked into the park for a concert. There, in front of Mikey’s Mansion, were two black SUVs, idling with the windows up and parked in a “No Standing” zone. One of them was blocking a fire hydrant. The six police officers standing there didn’t look to me like they were inclined to write a summons.
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