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York"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Green New Deal Comes to New York"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A ban on skyscrapers. Wind turbines in the middle of one of the most overcrowded and noisiest cities on earth. Billions in building renovation costs. Stopping natural gas. Shutting down all the power plants. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Green New Deal is coming to New York City. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We are going to ban the glass and steel skyscrapers which are inefficient,” Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on MSNBC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was the first warning most New Yorkers got of what their radical city government had wrought. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We're actually making the Green New Deal come alive here in New York City,\" the leftist mayor explained. As if anyone except for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez thought that was a good thing. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JXkwBglvf6I\/XM55X29_cNI\/AAAAAAAARdg\/eDly_MgH5cYiewwIr0Qe1SSuwOkidyjrQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/trainwreck.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"901\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JXkwBglvf6I\/XM55X29_cNI\/AAAAAAAARdg\/eDly_MgH5cYiewwIr0Qe1SSuwOkidyjrQCLcBGAs\/s320\/trainwreck.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThe Big Apple has no cows to ban. And without planes, it would be cut off from the rest of the planet. But its version of the Green New Deal will still find dozens of ways to make New Yorkers miserable. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBill de Blasio claimed that the city would switch completely to ‘renewables’ in only 5 years. That would be a spectacular achievement since neither solar nor wind energy work all that well in New York. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York ranks 47 out of 50 states in average sunlight hours at only 3.79. It’s windier than it is sunnier, but still only comes in at 28 out of 50 with an average annual windspeed of 0.05 miles per hours. Turbines need winds of 10 miles an hour to start working and city winds are not only erratic, when they blow, they come from different directions, making conventional wind energy setups all but useless. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Times even noted that the city’s turbines were for show, with the builder of the city’s first wind turbine building installation admitting that they barely did anything. “On a good day, there’s maybe enough energy to power the common areas,” he said, “but we don’t get a lot of good days.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Our installers spend more time convincing people not to build turbines than to build them,” New York State’s turbine program director said. “The conditions really have to be ideal.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut now there are a whole lot of mandatory wind turbines coming to New York City’s rooftops. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of the Green New Deal bills mandates either solar panels, plants or wind turbines on roofs. There’s also a bill pushing large wind turbines. Aside from killing birds, wind turbines make lots of noise. And they have been known to catch fire or collapse. When that happens, metal can turn into shrapnel that has been known to travel for as much as a mile. Who needs terrorism when scrap metal from a badly installed wind turbine rains down on Manhattan commuters? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that won’t stop New York’s version of the Green New Deal, the Climate Mobilization Act. The Act is a package of 10 bills, three of these include massive building retrofits, including the so-called ‘Skyscraper Ban’, that would force major revamping of even existing buildings, while also creating a loan program. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E7 others call for a study on replacing the city’s 21 power plants with solar, wind and batteries, mandate turbines and solar panels on roofs, and stop a pipeline meant to bring natural gas to New York. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe skyscraper ban meanwhile targets buildings over 25,000 square feet with fines if they don’t reduce energy usage. That’s why Bill de Blasio was announcing the end of the glass and steel skyscraper. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of De Blasio’s flunkies estimated that it would take $4 billion in work to meet those targets. That’s heavily optimistic and unrealistic. It may easily cost a hundred times that and still fail because its targets can’t be met. And the plan depends on believing that its existence will create an energy efficiency boom. The technology and financials that will enable it to work will come into being because of its existence. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the skyscrapers aren’t actually going anywhere. Middle class housing is another matter. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf your skyscraper is using too much energy, you can offset it by buying renewable energy credits. It’s the same old scam in which a fake crisis is used to feed money to powerful green energy donors. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile a Queens co-op of senior citizens on fixed incomes is facing climate regulation doomsday. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“To get down to even 20 percent from where I am today, with the technology that exists, there’s nothing more that I can do,” a co-op board president said. “It’s not like there’s this magic wand.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey can dig into their fixed incomes to buy “renewable energy credits” from green billionaires. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s what the Green New Deal and every environmental measure comes down to. Rent seeking regs are used to steal money from the struggling middle class and put it into the pockets of wealthy lefties. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMayor Bill de Blasio, in traditional radical fashion, is selling this as a crackdown on the skyscrapers of the wealthy. But the ugly reality is that it’s stealing money from senior citizens to give to green investors. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStopping a natural gas pipeline won’t hurt the city’s new elites. It will be the senior citizens that will freeze. Tight energy use regulations won’t keep Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and the rest of the expat hipsters from using central air, with wind turbines on their building roofs for show, but it will mean that working class New Yorkers won’t be able to run their air conditioners in the killing summer heat. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELiving in New York City already isn’t affordable. The Green New Deal will make it impossible. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese regulations will squeeze what’s left of the city’s middle class out. They will make it impossible for anyone who isn’t wealthy or on welfare to remain in New York City. That’s what they are meant to do. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We are on the precipice of climate disaster, and New York City is acting,” City Council Speaker Corey Johnson declared. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York City is on the precipice of disaster, but it isn’t caused by the climate, but by the Coreys. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I remember the devastation of Hurricane Sandy like it was yesterday. There weren’t many climate change deniers left in our city. Not after that,\" Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHurricanes are a reality of living in the region. What made Sandy so devastating wasn’t climate change, it was the ineptness and poor planning of city, state and federal authorities who failed to prepare, provide aid or produce a plan for dealing with a natural disaster. Blackouts that took down the power grid, including hospitals, occurred because power plants had been positioned right next to the water. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York City is still recovering from Hurricane Sandy, not because of climate, but because of government mismanagement. Instead of building an energy grid and communications infrastructure capable of coping with a hurricane, billions are being diverted into a bizarre plan to change the weather with fines and taxes. No matter how many fines and taxes are imposed, the weather will not change. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat will change is livability. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe emissions caps will dramatically raise the cost of living in New York City. It will eliminate all housing except that geared to the wealthy and the welfare class. It will also push more businesses out of the city. And that will take more jobs out of a city that already barely has an economy that benefits its residents. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBillions will flow into the companies of environmentalist donors. The targets, total renewable energy in 5 years, won’t be met. Skyscrapers will continue to be built, and the power plants will remain. The energy that powers the city will still come from oil and gas. But everyone will be obligated to buy renewable credits that have nothing to do with the actual sources of residential and commercial power. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEveryone in New York will get their power from ‘brown energy’ while paying companies in windier and sunnier states for ‘green energy’ that they will never access. And they won’t know any better. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere will be a small useless wind turbine on their roofs and some even more useless solar panels. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd, occasionally, an actual wind turbine will malfunction and take off somebody’s head. For the environment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/271824\/anti-semitic-leftist-hatefest-greets-trump-daniel-greenfield\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ethe above link\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. And t\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003Ehank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5845442594486096052\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2019\/05\/the-green-new-deal-comes-to-new-york.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5845442594486096052"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5845442594486096052"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2019\/05\/the-green-new-deal-comes-to-new-york.html","title":"The Green New Deal Comes to New York"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JXkwBglvf6I\/XM55X29_cNI\/AAAAAAAARdg\/eDly_MgH5cYiewwIr0Qe1SSuwOkidyjrQCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/trainwreck.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5651713748365095237"},"published":{"$t":"2019-04-24T01:47:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-13T20:04:44.046-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cities"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"De Blasio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"New York"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Escape From New York 2021"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In the movie Escape From New York, the island of Manhattan was walled off and mined. For its fortieth anniversary, New York City will try to recreate its plot by walling off parts of Manhattan with toll booths. The walls of toll booths to impose congestion pricing on the locals will fulfill the dream of former Mayor Bloomberg whose wildest ideas now seem downright tame to the new Dem radicals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou could try to bypass the toll booths along 61st Street by taking an Uber, but good luck. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-38oVQgTUFhw\/XryKDhP1WqI\/AAAAAAAASFM\/KglJ0YzHv5UV2UJaFy_hQUlBJM7ZCvkCwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/snake_plissken_escape_from_new_york.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"680\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-38oVQgTUFhw\/XryKDhP1WqI\/AAAAAAAASFM\/KglJ0YzHv5UV2UJaFy_hQUlBJM7ZCvkCwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/snake_plissken_escape_from_new_york.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York City has also been leading a crackdown on ridesharing on behalf of taxi drivers who began committing suicide because they were no longer able to overcharge, rip off and rob tourists. Uber will be capped, taxed and pushed out of the city along with all the other cars to encourage people to use public transportation. Unfortunately, public transportation doesn’t work anymore. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can still ride a bike, if you don’t mind suffering bruises, bumps and skull fractures. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York City subway is failing badly. To quote the New York Times, \"Century-old tunnels and track routes are crumbling... Just 65 percent of weekday trains reach their destinations on time, the lowest rate since the transit crisis of the 1970s\". Cars are being taxed to help fund this collapsing system. But the problem isn’t a lack of money: the money is being diverted by unions and political sweetheart deals. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERaising taxes doesn’t fix corruption. It worsens it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERecord numbers of New Yorkers are fleeing the Democrat disasters of the city and the state. But escaping New York by renting a car will also be more challenging because the state budget also includes a new tax on car rentals. And don’t even think of trying to fly out of one of New York’s terrible airports. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWalling off parts of Manhattan behind toll booths will make food deliveries much more expensive. And so, the disastrous state budget deal also bans plastic bags to make shopping for food equally miserable whether you do delivery or go to the supermarket. And don’t imagine for a moment that asking for paper will get you a pass. Paper bags will also be taxed because going to the supermarket is a crime. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnlike Snake Plissken, once you escape from New York, your troubles will just be getting started. If you leave any property behind, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance will pore through your cellphone records, stalk your Facebook feed, stop off at your dentist’s office, and even check your fridge to prove that you still live in the Big Apple, and should be paying Governor Cuomo’s new salary. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut for those New Yorkers who stay behind, life keeps getting worse. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"This budget is probably the strongest progressive statement that we've made,\" Governor Cuomo declared, referring to the bizarre mess that the Democrat controlled legislature pieced together at 2.30 AM for no reason except corruption and a burning hatred for everyone living above 61st Street. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the state budget was terrible news for people, it was great news for criminals. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I’d say about 85 percent of the population will now be looking at a cashless bail system,” Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-Bronx, had boasted. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBecause the one thing that the Bronx desperately needs is more criminals wandering its streets. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was also good news for the state’s most successful criminal element with $100 million in taxpayer funds going to a commission, 6 of whose 9 members will be appointed by Democrats, to finance political campaigns. Political consultants in New York are now an official public subsidy and a welfare class. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor Cuomo will also get a 40% pay hike. It’ll take a lot of paper bag taxes to pay for that. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd, because New York State Dems now make Bond villains look like decent folks, there’s a $100 million tax on pain medications. If you’re suffering in pain, you will end up paying more for your medications. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen you need $100 million to pass on to politicians, why not take it from those who are suffering? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat kind of politicians raise taxes on people living in literal agony? Democrats. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETaxes have often been called a pain, but New York Democrats have achieved a true first by actually taxing pain. This Torquemada taxation is a new low even for New York’s pro-infanticide Democrats. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only possible next step is to actually tax each individual scream. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York Dems started out by pretending that they were trying to “help” fight opioid addiction with their pain medication tax and were protecting consumers. Now the mask is off and the official wording reads, \"The economic incidence of the tax imposed by this article may be passed to a purchaser.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s a very legalistic way of saying that New York Democrats are offering their suffering victims a choice between screaming in pain and paying more money to the corrupt Democrat machine. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStealing candy from babies would have been halfway civilized by comparison to this horror. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new leftist Dems boast about how they’re destroying the old Democrat machine. But even Tammany Hall, for all of its greedy crimes, would not have stooped to this level of barbarism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly political monsters tax pain and torture people for money. Albany is now crawling with them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that’s how you get to a $175 billion budget. You do it by stealing from everybody and their grandmother, her paper bags and her pain medication. You recreate Escape from New York on 61st Street, you make it impossible to travel within the city and then you check the fridges of the escapees. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAssemblyman Doug Smith, a Republican, said that the only thing missing from the “midnight budget deal was a mask and gun.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The apparent economic strategy of New York Democrats is simple: ‘Put a tax or fee on everything you see,’” Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb said. “Grocery bags, internet purchases, vapor products, real estate transactions, prescription medication, rental cars, commuting in and around New York City all become more expensive when this budget takes effect.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe complete contempt of New York Democrats for the rest of the state was captured in one single exchange during the bag debate between Senator Kaminsky and Senator Funke. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"If I have old Wegmans plastic bags at home, can I bring them to the store and use them again?\" Senator Funke asked. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Did you say an old white man's plastic bag?\" Senator Kaminsky sneered. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWegmans is a popular supermarket chain with plenty of stores in New York. But none in New York City. Senator Funke is a 70-year-old Republican. Senator Kaminsky is a 39-year-old former federal prosecutor occupying a Republican seat after Senator Skelos was taken down by disgraced former federal thug Preet Bhara, who appeared to be clearing his own way to power until Trump showed him the door. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBhara has yet to slime his way into public office, but Kaminsky made it in by a few hundred votes. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats occupied New York’s Senate, traditionally a Republican stronghold reflecting the larger state, by thuggish tactics. The purge of Republicans and moderate Democrats, like Sheldon Silver, paved the way for the takeover of both houses by a new Dem majority of crooks, extremists, bigots and lunatics. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr there’s Senator Julia Salazar who has been accused of being all four of these. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenator Kaminsky’s victory represented a crucial seat in establishing a ‘Californian’ legislature in New York eager to pass any leftist agenda, no matter how crazy, abusive or irresponsible it might be. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBanning bags, forcing people in pain to pay more for their medication, walling off parts of Manhattan, and freeing criminals are the wages of a one-party state assembling dirty deals at 2.30 in the morn. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Elections have consequences,” Barack Hussein Obama once told Republicans. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey do indeed. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe consequences of a powerful Democrat majority in New York can be seen from 61st Street to your local supermarket and pharmacy. But more broadly, they mean driving everyone who works for a living out of the state, if they can find a way to get out, and then robbing them some more on the way out. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York is suffering the steepest population losses of any state. New Yorkers are fleeing to places where they can afford a car, a home and medications. Where they can shop at a supermarket or order takeout, where they can cross the street without running into a tollbooth, and where they can be free. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd they’re getting out before the walls go up around Manhattan and the bridges are mined.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/271824\/anti-semitic-leftist-hatefest-greets-trump-daniel-greenfield\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ethe above link\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. 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Remember when subway trains were covered in graffiti, a news hour began with six shootings and everyone who lived in the city had been mugged at least once?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERemember when Times Square had more strip clubs than theaters and when you could afford an apartment in the village because it was a drug infested mess? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERemember when the city and everyone living in it were on the verge of bankruptcy and the only people who had money lived upstate or in a small cluster of Manhattan?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERemember when everything was grimy and had a layer of filth, when people moved to the city because they wanted to slum, when nothing worked and no one cared and the only difference between New York and Chicago was that it had taller buildings?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you miss that classic New York, there's good news because Bill de Blasio is bringing it back.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe muggers are coming back. The squeegee men are coming back. The crazy people randomly stabbing you on the subway, the gangs shooting each other over turf, the race rioters marching through neighborhoods and shouting, \"Whose streets, our streets\"-- they're all coming back.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBecause the polls have spoken. And it's De Blasio time now. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo more fascist cops hassling \"innocent\" people. Bill de Blasio won't put up with any of that. De Blasio will put the cops in their place, inside a Dunkin Donuts and away from people. They'll still get paid. They're in a union. They just won't lift a finger to help you because they'll have more special monitors and civilian complaint review boards on their necks than they can handle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd next time one of the innocent victims of Stop and Frisk is pounding your face into the sidewalk with one hand while digging through your pockets with the other, wave to the pair of beat cops sitting in the window of the coffee shop. And they'll wave back without getting up. Because you voted for this. And you're getting what you deserve.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen you recover from your medically induced coma, you'll have a hell of a story to tell between reconstructive surgery visits. You might be tempted to complain about how the police don't do anything anymore and how we pay them a ton of money and they don't do anything except rope off a crime scene.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut don't. You don't want to sound like one of those crazy right winger types carrying guns on the 3 train waiting to go all Bernhard Goetz on some street kid. It's De Blasio time. It's what you voted for. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll those cops ruined the special spirit of the city. The one where you could see someone lying in a\u0026nbsp; pool of their own blood on the A train on the way to work and you shrugged and moved on. The one where every weekend began with more bodies than an entire season of Law and Order.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt'll be exciting. Remember when people thought you were risking your life by living in the city. Now they will again. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERelatives will look at the latest body count and gasp admiringly. \"How can you live there?\" And you'll stow your illegal can of mace in your pocket, your rape whistle on your key chain and all the apps on your phone that directly contact the FBI, the NYPD and Interpol and shrug manfully. \"It's no big deal. I haven't even been mugged in six months.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ERemember when all those gentrified neighborhoods full of artisanal bake shops were places that no taxi driver would take you?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERemember when the Mac repair shop, the experimental art gallery and the fusion Mexican-Thai place across the street were a dirty bodega with bulletproof windows, a street pentecostal church with steel bars and a healthy dose of voodoo and a burnt out abandoned building?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey will be again. The fusion place will move to Portland. The Mac guy will close up shop and go to work at a Best Buy in Westchester. He'll hate it, but after the third robbery, his insurance rates will be too high to stay on. But he'll have nothing to complain about. He voted for De Blasio too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that experimental art gallery, the one with collages of world leaders made out of broken glass as a statement against capitalism? It's a burnt out abandoned building again. The owner who used to want 10 million bucks for the building would give it to you in exchange for paying the tax bill. But you won't take it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou voted for De Blasio, but you're not that stupid. No one buys real estate in De Blasio time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA lot of the new amenities of the city that you love will still be around. Like bike lanes. There will be more of them than ever.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuggers will love the bike lanes. They'll stand behind phone booths with a hockey stick. The stick will go out at the last minute, the bike rider will tumble off his 400 dollar toy and the stick will come down on his head.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou don't ride a bike anymore. No one really does except Chinese food deliverymen. You take the subway. It's dirty and grimy. It's covered in graffiti. And sometimes you remember when there were shiny new Japanese trains and you could ride them at 1 AM, without worrying about being attacked.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou remember riding your Citibike to a party past row after row of brand new restaurants and clubs. But that was a different city. That was Giuliani's New York and Bloomberg's New York. It's De Blasio's New York now. It's the old Dinkins New York. And no one does those things now. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECitibike will be gone. Of course. The whole thing was a program to advertise Citibank to the city's booming upscale white population. And on De Blasio time, a lot of that population is leaving. And New York City on De Blasio time is not a brand that any major corporation wants to be associated with.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGiuliani New York and Bloomberg New York were booming cities. De Blasio New York is a place where the mayor gives constant press conferences about gang violence and announces new rape prevention programs. Every news story about the city now begins with, \"Four people were shot in New York over the weekend\" and \"A fire swept out of control through Brooklyn destroying four city blocks. Police suspect arson.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that's cool. Who needs those stupid corporations anyway when Occupy Wall Street has a dozen encampments. A lot of those encampments are really homeless tent cities. But that's a good thing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECentral Park may now be scarier than ever and no one goes there after dark except muggers and cruisers. Columbus Circle is now a mess of shacks. But maybe the crazy guy who sleeps with a large butcher knife on the stairs in front of your building might decide to go there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou nervously slip him a fiver every morning, but you hear him muttering every time he takes the money and you know he doesn't like you. One time he told the lady who lives next door to you that he's going to stab her. Everyone in the building has complained to the police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what can they do? It's De Blasio time. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are good things about De Blasio's New York. Like all those troop carriers rattling the sidewalk as they go down Fifth Avenue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBill de Blasio promised that he would shut down surveillance of mosques. And he kept his word. And the terrorists kept theirs. They say ten thousand people died. But a hundred thousand were affected by the gas pouring through the subway tunnels all the way down to Times Square. Some of them may die. A lot of them have scarred lungs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Clinton has promised that she will get those responsible. Meanwhile there are jets overhead and soldiers in the streets. They help keep down crime a little. But it's been a year now and Mayor De Blasio wishes they would leave. They're upsetting everyone in the mosque that the terrorists visited before they loaded up their canisters into backpacks and took the A train.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe NYPD could have stopped them. It would have stopped them under Giuliani and Bloomberg. But the terrorists were smarter than you. They waited for De Blasio time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou were downwind when the attack happened. But you still cough a lot. Sometimes blood comes out. You wonder if it's psychosomatic or the real thing. You wish you could see a doctor, but you lost your health insurance when the company you work for relocated and fired all its non-essential employees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDe Blasio has made sure there are plenty of neighborhood clinics around. But no one in them speaks English and there's a long waiting list. \"Three week,\" they shout at you each time you come in while holding up three fingers. It's been three months. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what can you do? It's De Blasio time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's not like Bill de Blasio has done a bad job. Sure things are terrible, but everyone still likes him. He looks a lot older and greyer. He doesn't tell jokes anymore. His voice is flat and like everyone else in the city, he sounds like he's just trying to get through the next day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that's De Blasio time for you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou've thought a lot about what to do next. Your brother wants you to move to San Francisco. He says he can get you an interview there. Your parents think you should move back home. No one is hiring here anymore. Even the movie and television shoots that used to happen on every block are gone. They're working in Chicago now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey say that New York City is going bankrupt. That it has no future. The latest bond sales are going badly because the city's credit rating is in the toilet. But that's all Wall Street's fault. Why should those bastards lower the city's credit rating to junk just because it has more debt than the rest of the Tri-State Area combined. The city is good for it? Or at least it used to be... before De Blasio time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou're not ready to give up on New York yet. Sure times have been tough, but it's a tough city. And it's an incredible mosaic of diversity. Just last week you got held up by a guy from Swaziland and you never even heard of Swaziland before.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYour new roommate is from Brazil. He sells drugs. Your drug dealer is from Lebanon. He wants to be in fashion. It's still an exciting city with plenty of opportunities for those who know how to take them. But the takers seem to be taking them from you. And even though you're out of work, your tax bill is too high.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what can you do? It's De Blasio time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere's a new housing project going up next door. It's forty stories tall. There will be a hundred like it all across your neighborhood. Manhattan will never be the same. It's great that Bill de Blasio is doing this so that there will be more affordable housing. The projects already look scary. There are gangs haunting the scaffolding around it. Sometimes they throw rocks through your window. After the fourth time, you stopped paying to have it replaced. You just paste it over with tape and cardboard to keep the January wind out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe good news is that your rent has gone down. It's a fraction of what it used to be. The bad news is that you still can't afford it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ESometimes you think about applying to live in the projects, collecting benefits and food stamps, riding the elevators down to get some cigarettes and lottery tickets at the local bodega, and then back up to your apartment. And then you recoil in horror and begin thinking about taking up your brother on his offer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBecause this isn't the New York City you wanted, even though it's the one you voted for. Bill de Blasio is not the New York City you needed, it's the one you deserved. And it's the one you got.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so you leave. The taxi ride to JFK airport takes forever. The airport is a dirty mess. But finally your plane takes off. There are two ex-cons with rocket launchers waiting in the marshes just outside the tarmac. You never see the rocket that hits you. Just the flash of heat that burns you and your girlfriend and your cat in his carrier in the plane's cargo section and the other hundred and twenty people getting the hell out of Bill de Blasio's New York City to ash.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe NYPD busted up a plot just like it a few years ago. But they did it with informants and mosque surveillance. Unfair tactics like that were banned by Bill de Blasio just as he promised his Muslim supporters he would.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the last burning pieces of what used to be you fall into the water, your last thought is of how unfair all this is. But you shouldn't complain. This is what you voted for.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's De Blasio time."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6357733062829633310\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2013\/11\/its-de-blasio-time.html#comment-form","title":"36 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6357733062829633310"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6357733062829633310"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2013\/11\/its-de-blasio-time.html","title":"It's De Blasio Time"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"36"}}]}});