Please be serious. As a former New Yorker whose kids still live in New York City we all knew exactly what he meant by "New York values." Republicans are outnumbered in the City by 7 to 1; conservatives are more like 20-1. If you don't know that, you must be incessantly looking at the floor whenever you walk, take a cab, or ride the subway.
What well did you suddenly come out of?!