{"id":472735,"date":"2022-07-11T05:46:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T02:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/boston-shows-new-yorkers-what-their-city-could-be-like\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T05:46:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T02:46:01","slug":"boston-shows-new-yorkers-what-their-city-could-be-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/boston-shows-new-yorkers-what-their-city-could-be-like\/","title":{"rendered":"#Boston shows New Yorkers what their city could be like"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41765f9c9c2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41765f9c9c2\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/boston-shows-new-yorkers-what-their-city-could-be-like\/#%E2%80%9CBoston_shows_New_Yorkers_what_their_city_could_be_like%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Boston shows New Yorkers what their city could be like&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBoston_shows_New_Yorkers_what_their_city_could_be_like%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Boston shows New Yorkers what their city could be like&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Nicole Gelinas\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>After 904 nights of sleeping in Manhattan\u2019s Midtown West, I took a three-day <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> \u2014 to  exotic, faraway Boston. What I found there was shocking: normalcy. Boston is a liberal city \u2014 but it is also a\u00a0<em>pragmatic<\/em>\u00a0city.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My 9 a.m. walk down to New York\u2019s Penn Station for my train to Boston was normal \u2014 for the new New York. I had to avoid an emotionally disturbed gentleman brandishing a bottle, screaming at people to \u201cget away from me.\u201d (Good advice.)<\/p>\n<p>Four hours later, I de-trained in Beantown, dropped my backpack at my hotel, and began a\u00a0<em>long<\/em>\u00a0walk \u2014 21,599 steps.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I did not set out to take such a long walk: I had planned to spend much of the day working in my room.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But as I walked on, I found myself relaxing. I walked the tourist spots of Faneuil Hall and the wharves. I walked downtown. I walked the two parks. I walked to the Prudential Center, and then all the way through the Fens and the museum district.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the museum, had a drink, took the T back, ate an outdoor dinner and walked to my hotel, by myself \u2014\u00a0<em>in the dark<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I gradually realized that I did not feel nervous at all. Nobody accosted me screaming. Nobody looked like he was about to stab me if I refused to smile at him. The dusk-time Green Line T was a paradise of people on their way home from work, or on their way out to clubs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Passengers chatted or scrolled their phones, rather than glancing at their fellow passengers to assess the stabbing risk.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The next day, I worked all day on my computer, outside \u2014 and the same unusual thing: Nobody harassed or threatened me. I took the Blue Line T to East Boston, and did not have to figure out where to stand on the platform to equidistantly avoid the would-be pusher and the would-be flasher.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I also noticed that there was no disorder: no piles of trash spilling into the sidewalks. No needles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Boston has pandemic scars \u2014 empty restaurant and retail storefronts, fewer foreign tourists. But I didn\u2019t wonder if a bomb had fallen on it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My experience is backed by statistics:\u00a0\u00a0Boston is one of the only American cities not to have experienced a double-digit increase in violent crime over two years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/shutterstock_348436619.png?w=1024\" alt=\"Boston\" class=\"wp-image-22998141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/shutterstock_348436619.png?w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/shutterstock_348436619.png 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/shutterstock_348436619.png?w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Boston lost nearly 18% of its jobs, more than the nationwide level of 15%.\u00a0\u00a0<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2020, Boston had 57 murders, matching the 2017 number. In 2021, it had 40 murders \u2014\u00a0matching the 2015 number, and 16% below the five-year pre-COVID average. This, when New York, in 2021, saw 488 homicides, 53%\u00a0above\u00a0the five-year pre-COVID average.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Boston, rape, robbery and\u00a0assault are\u00a0all down since COVID\u00a0(with the sad exception of domestic violence).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The good <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> has continued\u00a0this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that Boston escaped COVID unemployment: It lost nearly 18% of its jobs, more than the nationwide level of 15%.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But: First, during the critical \u201cdefund\u201d movement of summer 2020, Boston was lucky to have a longtime, moderate Democrat mayor, Marty Walsh. \u201cI think that just arbitrarily cutting the budget isn\u2019t the answer,\u201d Walsh\u00a0said\u00a0in early June 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This was during the worst of the protests-cum-riots. It was\u00a0<em>hard\u00a0<\/em>to take this stance \u2014 but Walsh showed cops that though he would insist on police self-discipline, he wouldn\u2019t throw his force under the bus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AFP_32D77DJ-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Michelle Wu\" class=\"wp-image-22998122\"\/><figcaption>Boston Mayor Michelle Wu addresses the public during a rally to protest the US Supreme Court overturning of Roe Vs. Wade on Jun. 24, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images\/ Joseph Prezioso<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This moderate stance has continued, under supposedly progressive Mayor Michelle Wu. She killed police-budget cuts this year, winning praise from the conservative\u00a0Boston Herald: \u201cPeople got the message. Wu is supporting the cops,\u201d\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/06\/25\/lucas-kudos-to-michelle-wu-for-rejecting-cuts-to-police-budget\/\">the paper\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0contributor Peter Lucas wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then, there\u2019s Boston\u2019s supposedly progressive prosecutor \u2014 who wasn\u2019t\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0that progressive. Rachael Rollins, who headed the office until earlier this year, had\u00a0a long list\u00a0of \u201cdo not prosecute\u201d offenses, including shoplifting \u2014 but then promptly prosecuted repeat offenders who wouldn\u2019t cooperate with diversion programs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrary to what she seemed to initially suggest, Rollins has not implemented a wholesale policy of waiving prosecution of lower-level misdemeanors,\u201d\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/commonwealthmagazine.org\/the-download\/rachael-rollins-on-vindication-of-her-decline-to-prosecute-policy-2\/\">Commonwealth magazine\u00a0reported<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In April, Rollins\u2019 successor, Kevin Hayden,\u00a0<em>bragged<\/em> about revoking the bail of an \u201cunarmed\u201d robber after repeat second chances. Can you image Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg doing that?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no mystery to Boston\u2019s success: Be lenient when you can. Don\u2019t, when it harms public safety. I look forward to a trip back \u2014 to walk around without looking over my shoulder.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute\u2019s City Journal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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What I found there was shocking: normalcy. 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