Mass abandonment of the city could at least bring rents down (pleasing Jimmy Macmillan of the Rent is Too D*mn High Party).
Mass abandonment of the city could at least bring rents down (pleasing Jimmy Macmillan of the Rent is Too D*mn High Party).
What are the demographics of the upper east side of Manhattan?
There are and there always have been red areas on the map! De Blasio must have looked at them before deciding where to plow.
I grew up on the UWS, which was certainly not conservative by any measure, and then I came back from elsewhere and lived there for many years, a block away from where I grew up. But the strange thing is that everybody there hated Dem policies and complained incessantly...but when election day rolled around, they would either vote for the Dem or not vote at all.
Part of it was probably deficient GOP candidates, which is to be expected in a city that has virtually no GOP representation in its chambers or offices. There’s no development going on, so whoever has the money to file and run gets the nod. That’s how Bloomberg ran initially as a Republican. He did this because he thought no Dem could win, although he later changed to “Independent” because his policies were clearly at odds with GOP principles.
Still, he was at least competent in running the city. But if the entire country voted for an unproved incompetent, and then, 4 years later, voted for the same but now proved incompetent, who can criticize NYC?