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Good analysis. You hit on a point that most New Yorkers want to avoid. The success of New York City over the past 20-25 years has not been driven by "multiculturalism" as they like to delude themselves into believing, but by gentrification and keeping the "bad element" out of certain portions of it.

I might also throw in that there are a plethora of residential high rises going up in Manhattan that are being marketed to the uber-rich. Some of these high rises already have or will exceed in height the Empire State Building.

In order for these luxury units to sell and maintain their value, Manhattan must be kept safe below 110th Street and the high end restaurants, shops, theaters, etc., must be able to thrive as that is what is attracting the uber-rich to the city.

It will be interesting to see how things develop in the weeks and months ahead. If Di Blasio cannot make amends with the NYPD (and I don't see how that can happen) then he's either going to have to go or the city is going to slip back into the kind of lawlessness we saw during the bad days of the 1960s and 1970s.

Personally, I don't think the "uber-rich" who are spending tens of millions of dollars on high rise apartments there are going to allow the latter to happen. So if the NYPD continues their "slowdown" or whatever you want to call it, DiBlasio is a goner.

I might also throw in that there are a plethora of residential high rises going up in Manhattan that are being marketed to the uber-rich.

I'm thinking of having a pushcart on West 57th selling "No Radio" signs...

And then what happens to real estate vales in the city?

I felt more safer being a Gaijin in Japan than in new york city and my time in Japan was not at all bad to be honest