messiahrobins
Well-Known Member
So you confirm what i was saying.Like Trump you could do with a basic fact checker
The mayor from 1990-94 was David Dinkins a Democrat, who took over from another democrat Ed Koch who had been the mayor for 12 years. Neither were remotely right wing.
In 1994 Rudi Guiliani became mayor. Guiliani was a Republican lawyer who had (and obvs still has) a very high profile in the media but the city fared badly during his stint (which of course included 9/11).
The biggest transformation of the city came under the 12 year reign of the next mayor, Michael Bloomberg who was first elected as a Republican but switched to an “independent” six years later. Bloomberg refused to take a mayoral salary and was responsible for a strict zero tolerance policy which cracked down on prostitution and drug-related crime in places like Times Square. The city was absolutely transformed during his reign and the centre and tourist areas became much safer places. Hell’s Kitchen successfully rebranded itself as Midtown for example. Of course many critics point out that his zero tolerance policy may have just displaced social problems into less heavily policed areas and the gentrification of many neighbourhoods with brownstone step buildings in the city may have hollowed out some long standing communities and pushed them further into poverty.
