{"id":12013,"date":"2020-06-20T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasios-progressive-agenda-could-put-another-giuliani-in-city-hall\/"},"modified":"2020-06-20T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T18:07:00","slug":"de-blasios-progressive-agenda-could-put-another-giuliani-in-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasios-progressive-agenda-could-put-another-giuliani-in-city-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio\u2019s progressive agenda could put another Giuliani in City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#De Blasio\u2019s progressive agenda could put another Giuliani in City Hall<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n New York City is reeling from two crises the likes of which it hasn\u2019t seen in decades.<\/p>\n

The coronavirus pandemic has so far taken the lives of 21,000 New Yorkers and cratered the city\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

The reaction to the horrific George Floyd killing delivered a second blow. The massive peaceful protests were unifying and inspiring for many. But the mayhem in some parts of the city \u2014 looting, arson and violent attacks on police \u2014 was deeply disturbing.<\/p>\n

In response to both crises, New York Gov. Cuomo and City Mayor de Blasio vacillated and squabbled. They\u2019ve done little to reassure New Yorkers that the city has a future worth sticking around for.<\/p>\n

The pandemic drove hundreds of thousands from the city. Many won\u2019t return. Now, residents and businesses \u2014 retailers especially \u2014 have another incentive to leave.<\/p>\n

Images of Times Square, Soho and Fifth Avenue sacked by looters could scare tourists away for years.<\/p>\n

Park Slope resident Kay Hymowitz, who documented her borough\u2019s stunning revival in her book, \u201cThe New Brooklyn,\u201d now fears the opposite trend. \u201cI\u2019m afraid we\u2019re seeing the beginning of de-gentrification,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Even before the pandemic, high rents and unreliable transit were making city life too tough for many. New York\u2019s population peaked in 2016 and has been declining ever since.<\/p>\n

According to a gloomy Moody\u2019s Analytics forecast, pandemic fears mean that even the next generation of workers will likely bypass New York for \u201cdecades to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

What will it take to bring them back? First, people will need to feel safe.<\/p>\n

Current and future New Yorkers must be convinced the city is not a giant petri dish. And they\u2019ll need to trust that crime won\u2019t surge out of control.<\/p>\n

Those shouldn\u2019t be impossible goals.<\/p>\n

New York state now performs over 50,000 coronavirus tests per day. And as few as one percent of those tests are coming back positive.<\/p>\n

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NYC pulled itself out of near financial ruin in the \u201970s (left). Now that the city is roiled by a pandemic and social<\/a> unrest, the bad days could return without the right policies in place.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Continued frequent testing should help raise confidence as people head back to work and play. A coronavirus vaccine, likely to be available next year, will further calm anxieties.<\/p>\n

Fear of crime will be a tougher battle. Over his two terms, Mayor de Blasio has dismantled Giuliani- and Bloomberg-era programs that helped make New York the safest big city in the United States.<\/p>\n

Now crime is surging back. Murders are up 25 percent so far this year.<\/p>\n

While some say \u201cdefund the police\u201d is just a slogan, New York\u2019s City Council took it literally, pushing to cut $1 billion from the NYPD budget.<\/p>\n

There are valid arguments for investing in social programs along with traditional policing. But they aren\u2019t likely to reassure New Yorkers worried that dialing 911 will yield a busy signal.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t have to be this way. New York came back strong from the 2008 financial crisis and enjoyed more than a decade of growing tax revenues. Those years could have been used to repair the city\u2019s broken finances and out-of-control pensions.<\/p>\n

Instead, de Blasio focused on progressive pet projects. The mayor\u2019s $1 billion ThriveNYC mental-health initiative \u2014 spearheaded by his wife Chirlane McCray \u2014 has struggled to \u201cidentify concrete results,\u201d said The New York Times.<\/p>\n

Now the mayor has put McCray in charge of a new Taskforce on Racial Inclusion & Equity that will help supervise the city\u2019s coronavirus response.<\/p>\n

For its part, state government failed to rein in soaring pension costs or bring financial discipline to the MTA. A 2017 investigation revealed it costs six times more to build a mile of subway tunnel in New York than in Paris. Meanwhile, mass-transit ridership fell by 90 percent during the peak of the pandemic. Federal coronavirus relief payments don\u2019t come close to filling the gap in fares. The MTA estimates operating losses could reach $8.5 billion.<\/p>\n

With tourists gone and many businesses closed, tax receipts have plummeted. The city\u2019s Independent Budget Office predicts a $14 billion shortfall over the next three years.<\/p>\n

Grapp<\/a>ling with this financial meltdown will take leaders with the courage to take on unions and other powerful constituencies. There\u2019s little evidence either de Blasio or Cuomo has the stomach for this fight.<\/p>\n

New York has been here before. The city scraped bottom in the 1970s and \u201980s, with collapsing finances and soaring crime.<\/p>\n

By 1994, voters had had enough, electing the rough-edged prosecutor Rudy Giuliani, who made crime a top priority. Mayor Michael Bloomberg tempered but continued those tough-on-crime policies, and the city\u2019s economy boomed.<\/p>\n

Today, New York risks careening back to the troubled \u201970s and \u201980s. Rather than continuing to support progressive agendas like de Blasio\u2019s, it\u2019s easy to imagine voters will turn to hard-headed pragmatists who promise to take on the chaos.<\/p>\n

James B. Meigs is the co-host of the \u201cHow Do We Fix It?\u201d podcast and the former editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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