New York City’s decline in four mayoral administrations

The Hill ^ | 10/05/2023 | RICHARD J. SHINDER

[ChicagoConservative27]

Successfully managing a modern polity as large and complex as New York City is no mean feat. Interest groups compete for resources. Existential challenges suddenly emerge that were on no one’s mind when voters went to the polls (the 9/11 attacks, the current migrant crisis), and issues both large and small are relentlessly sensationalized, exacerbated by local tabloid media and the nation’s focus on happenings in its largest city.

These all serve to make New York City, as it was once famously characterized, “ungovernable.”

The difficulty in attributing outcomes to specific policy initiatives, setting priorities among affordability, public safety, economic opportunity, quality of life, etc., and analyzing policy feedback loops all pose challenges to determining whom and what to credit for success — or to blame for failure.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Giuliani was the only bright spot out of the rest of the losers

[Spok]

Ya, they just get worse and worse, but DeBlasio, IMO, really bottomed out. His opinion of the mentality of New Yorkers was really quite stunning. The thing with the hamburger truly broke new ground.

[PGR88]

I would go back to John Lindsay in the 1960s. He was a true NY elitist and destructive “progressive,” friend of the Bush family, switched from GOP to Democrat to get elected and proceeded to bankrupt New York City.

[Alberta's Child]

The downside with Giuliani was that he tried to parlay his success as NYC mayor into a national political career. He failed terribly -- for a reason that a long-forgotten Freeper captured perfectly:

"Rudy Giuliani is the solution to problems most Americans don't have."