{"id":189523,"date":"2021-02-26T02:46:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T23:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasios-lame-recovery-plan-wont-end-nycs-ghost-town\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T02:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T23:46:49","slug":"de-blasios-lame-recovery-plan-wont-end-nycs-ghost-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasios-lame-recovery-plan-wont-end-nycs-ghost-town\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio’s lame recovery plan won’t end NYC’s Ghost Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#De Blasio’s lame recovery plan won’t end NYC’s Ghost Town<\/strong>”
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Almost a year into Gotham\u2019s devastating lockdown, Mayor de Blasio has announced the app<\/a>ointment of former school-construction chief Lorraine Grillo as \u201crecovery czar\u201d to, in his words, \u201csuper-charge\u201d an economic recovery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But a close look at the mayor\u2019s sad, thin recovery plan belies his commitment to the future of New York City as a locus of growth and opportunity \u2014 which it must once more be if the desolate ghost-town effect is to disappear.<\/p>\n

In his news<\/a> conference announcing Grillo\u2019s new role, Hizzoner proclaimed the \u201cincredible\u201d news that the city would extend its contract with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to manage Kennedy airport. The contract, set to expire in 2050, will now run through 2060. This \u201cgreat plan,\u201d says de Blasio, means that \u201ca lot of the money from JFK will go to minority and women-owned businesses. A lot of the hiring will be from the surrounding neighborhoods in Southeast Queens.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indeed, people in Jamaica will continue to work at the airport, as they always have, and the renovation of terminals, runways and parking lots will surely involve the hiring of local labor, too. But so what? It\u2019s not like de Blasio was going to take over the largest airport in the Northeast when he can\u2019t even figure out a way to assume management of two Central Park ice rinks from Donald Trump. The mayor\u2019s role in determining what happens on Port Authority property is miniscule.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sign of how unserious de Blasio is about economic recovery that he celebrates the planned return of the city\u2019s 330,000 municipal employees to their offices. City workers have been held \u201charmless\u201d throughout the pandemic, even while many of them have had little, if anything, to do. Been to a library lately? It\u2019s fine that they will finally be getting back to work, but only in de Blasio\u2019s fantasies do government employees represent economic vitality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The key to de Blasio\u2019s economic-development strategy is to leverage Gotham\u2019s newfound expertise with contagious disease to make it the \u201cpublic-health capital of the world.\u201d Central to this vision is a plan to rename First Avenue, with its many hospitals and labs, \u201cLifeSci Avenue.\u201d This moniker may not have the romance or elan of \u201cMuseum Mile\u201d or even \u201cAvenue of the Americas\u201d \u2014 but you have to give the mayor credit for trying.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The problem is that the United States already has two cities that are \u201cpublic-health capitals,\u201d namely Atlanta and Bethesda, the homes of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, respectively. Public health \u2014 as in, tracking seasonal influenza outbreaks\u2014is important but not very profitable, which is why the federal government manages it.<\/p>\n

Assuming that because the Big Apple was slammed by COVID we should now go into the pandemic business is a bad joke. It\u2019s like telling Flint, Mich., to start a new company to compete with P\u00fcr water filters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

De Blasio also wants to hire 10,000 temporary workers for a \u201cCity Cleanup Corps\u201d to beautify the city by removing the graffiti that has steadily taken over New York\u2019s streets and even subway cars. Of course, it was just last July when de Blasio suspended the popular and successful Graffiti-Free NYC program, after which the scourge of graffiti really exploded. The NYPD has substantially cut back vandalism-related arrests, too. So there\u2019s another formula for economic rebirth: encourage filth and then hire the unemployed to clean it up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mayor also plans to make the Taskforce on Racial Inclusion and Equity, a city-funded boondoggle his wife nominally runs, a permanent office of city government. The taskforce will help \u201cidentify areas of structural racism in New York City\u201d and \u201croot out this systemic rot.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

None of that will revivify a dead Midtown. Instead, de Blasio, as usual, wants to \u201ctax the wealthy and redistribute wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taxing billionaires to plump up social<\/a> services has been an enduring strategy for the city\u2019s political class for a long time, but it only works as long as the goose doesn\u2019t mind waiting around to be plucked. But raising taxes isn\u2019t a plan for growth and will only hasten the accelerating departure of rich New Yorkers for sunnier climes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Memo to the mayor: Reviving New York City\u2019s stalled economy will take more than slowly bringing municipal clerks back to their desks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seth Barron is managing editor of The American Mind and \u00adauthor of the forthcoming book \u201cThe Last Days of New York<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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“#De Blasio’s lame recovery plan won’t end NYC’s Ghost Town” Almost a year into Gotham\u2019s devastating lockdown, Mayor de Blasio has announced the appointment of former school-construction chief Lorraine Grillo as \u201crecovery czar\u201d to, in his words, \u201csuper-charge\u201d an economic recovery.\u00a0 But a close look at the mayor\u2019s sad, thin recovery plan belies his commitment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/021821mayor_votenyc_13RM.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[95117,5042,1545,70344,28954,4953],"class_list":["post-189523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-25-21","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-in-ny","tag-ghost-town","tag-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}