{"id":285469,"date":"2021-06-28T04:15:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T01:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nycs-next-mayor-will-have-to-contend-with-lefty-city-council\/"},"modified":"2021-06-28T04:15:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T01:15:02","slug":"nycs-next-mayor-will-have-to-contend-with-lefty-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nycs-next-mayor-will-have-to-contend-with-lefty-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC’s next mayor will have\u00a0to contend with lefty City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC’s next mayor will have\u00a0to contend with lefty City Council<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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No mayor is an island. Gotham\u2019s next leader \u2014 likely Eric Adams \u2014 must deal with a brand-new City Council in pursuing recovery, with most incumbents term-limited out of office. Lawmakers will have a say in everything from hiring more cops to which livability laws the city enforces. Will the new council help \u2014 or hurt?\u00a0<\/p>\n

The good news<\/a>: Last week\u2019s Democratic primary wasn\u2019t a far-left triumph. Trying (still) to capitalize on the AOC win three years ago, the Democratic Social<\/a>ists of America endorsed six candidates. Only two \u2014 public defender Tiffany Cab\u00e1n of Jackson Heights and Alexa Avil\u00e9s of Sunset Park \u2014 are leading.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These are hardly flipped seats; there is no red wave changing New York politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In several neighborhoods, voters chose not a radically different future, but the past: The Upper West Side renominated Gale Brewer, who held the same seat before becoming borough president eight years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

East New York will likely re-re-elect Charles Barron, the career speechifyer who vacated the seat for his wife, Inez, in 2013. In both cases, the ideology stays the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Corey Johnson\u2019s likely successor in Hell\u2019s Kitchen and Chelsea is Erik Bottcher .\u2009.\u2009. a longtime Corey Johnson aide. Julie Menin of the Upper East Side is slightly to the right of the incumbent, Ben Kallos.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maybe voters had too many choices, whether for mayor or comptroller, forcing them to seek out the name they already knew further down the ballot. Or maybe it\u2019s by design: The voters just didn\u2019t give the council much direction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mayoral candidate Eric Adams celebrating the early primary election results on June 22, 2021.<\/figcaption>
Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The council, then, is just like it was before \u2014 only slightly more so. That isn\u2019t good, because for the past year, the council has been effectively leaderless and fragmented.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The council\u2019s most important job is passing the annual budget. Think Speaker Peter Vallone, back in the early 1990s, supporting Mayor David Dinkins\u2019 effort to hire more police.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We saw how quickly Johnson, as speaker, bowed to the \u00ad#Defund mob that occupied City Hall Park for weeks last year. Lawmakers voted to cancel the hiring of 1,163 police officers \u2014 a class New York will badly need now, to replace 2,600 retirements last year, nearly double the normal level, as it combats a surge in shootings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t Johnson\u2019s fault alone: Relative old-timers like Brooklyn\u2019s Brad Lander and the East Side\u2019s Kallos wouldn\u2019t give him any cover, voting \u201cno\u201d on the budget \u00adbecause it didn\u2019t cut the police enough. Johnson needed moderate minority votes \u2014 people like Adams \u2014 to get any budget passed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The same issue is going to crop up rather soon: One of the new mayor\u2019s first orders of businesses will be to fill depleted police ranks. Can the next mayor convince the next council to backtrack on #Defund?\u00a0<\/p>\n

New members such as Cab\u00e1n \u2014 who wants to \u201cdisband the NYPD\u201d \u2014 may not numerically move the council further left. But their AOC-like ability to garner attention beyond their districts can cow people who might be on the fence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Democratic Socialist Tiffany Cab\u00e1n won her race for City Council in Astoria, Queens.<\/figcaption>
BRIGITTE STELZER<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Policing can\u2019t fix all our social problems. Bottcher has the beginnings of a solid mental-health plan, including acknowledging that the city needs both in-patient psychiatric beds and \u201crespite\u201d beds for people not sick enough for the hospital, but too sick to take care of themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But such investments must come with a promise: We won\u2019t accept anti-social criminal behavior on the streets, whether \u201clow-level\u201d assaults or coercive panhandling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A listless council may mean we spend billions on supportive-housing programs that attract newcomers from all over the country \u2014 but the streets remain just as disorderly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the rest of the city budget. The city faces a nearly $4 billion deficit after its federal COVID cash runs out. Gotham has yet to come to terms with indefinitely lower property values, and property taxes, from Midtown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Big App<\/a>le needs a council that will firmly revisit de Blasio\u2019s plan to spend $9 billion to build four high-rise jails in four separate boroughs, and a council that is realistic about how much new below-market housing the city can afford to subsidize. But most new members ran on grand plans, not retrenchment, promising vast new affordable-housing developments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The council\u2019s deteriorating cohesion \u2014 not improved by the election results \u2014 points up why New York needs a well-grounded mayor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If Adams turns out the winner, he will have to provide the political cover for councilmembers who want to hire more police but are afraid of looking racist for saying so. And he will have to be his own budget watchdog.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor of City Journal.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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