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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/17/mamdani-turns-on-the-charm-meets-his-critics-head-on-00459150

Mamdani is meeting with people and building bridges. Cuomo and Adams are hanging out in the Hamptons, courting the 1%, and desperately trying to knock Mamdani.

And you do recall that Cuomo raised taxes on high earners and corps when he was governor, right? But when Mamdani talks about this, he’s going to wreck the entire country?  Got it.

More moderate Dems would endorse Mamdani but they’re terrified of upsetting Zionist donors.  Pathetic. [/quote]

When he was governor, dealing with a state income tax. Name me the city income tax rate in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and Boston. The 1% you disparage are why the city is a good place. They fund what you hold near and dear and they are increasingly mobile. Prop 13, cleaner streets, and year round sunshine make the Bay Area pretty desirable. For recent grads, tech is now a better ticket than finance except for the very tippy top of asset managers.

[b]As publishing houses, galleries, parks, and other institutions in the city further decay (they are shadows of themselves), more and more will look for the exit[/b] (like rent controlled landlords are now). I do not care one bit whether renters in the South Bronx or East New York fall through their floors or have exposed asbestos no one wants to remove. This is the city Mamdani wants.[/quote]

Ok you are obviously clueless and/or a troll. Again, you show a remarkable ignorance of actual city life.

The decline of publishing houses (what a strange thing to reference) has zero to do with the mayor, and everything to do with business realities. It’s not 1920 anymore.

And parks are doing just fine. There is a huge park project right now on the east side along the waterway and it’s been wonderful. And of course the high line a few years back. And revitalization projects on the west side and Brooklyn. West side even has a beach now. So fun.

Galleries? No idea what you’re even talking about. They are all over the city. Flourishing. [/quote]

People aspire to move to New York to be around cultured professionals, the types who work for publishing houses (many of which have left the city). New York’s share of high culture has declined tremendously since the Bloomberg years. Smart recent grads primed to make money don’t think living in Jackson Heights and eating 15 dollar takeout in a cockroach infested rent controlled apartment is the dream. That is Mamdani’s New York. [/quote]

That’s the life of any recent college graduate. First we complain that Gen Z is spoiled and now we want to spoil them? I find the anti-Mamdani crowd hysterical in all their doomsday scenarios. [/quote]

No it’s not. An analyst at a bulge bracket bank, MBB, and in tech is making more than enough to live in the West Village and enjoy fine dining. They would never live in some dump like the middle of Queens or deep Brooklyn. [/quote]

We’re supposed to be worried that some 22 year old finance d doesn’t want to live here? [/quote]

Yes, you should. They pay tens and tens of millions, sometimes hundreds, in state and city taxes over the course of their lifetimes. They are not accountants or in HR.[/quote]

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