It is all sizzling and without fillet. First Lady Chirlane McCray’s ThriveNYC unveiled a striking new website Monday that purports to show that the $ 1.25 billion plan has “dramatically improved the landscape of mental health services in New York City in the past five years. “ But a closer …
Read More »New York’s elected leaders have not begun to face its economic and fiscal horrors.
The city is going through really tough times, last week’s reports make it clear, and the pain may be worse thanks to continued denial by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council. In a sobering 67-page document, the Association for the City of New York warns that restarting the …
Read More »Governor Cuomo’s deadly silence on De Blasio’s police disasters in New York
Governor Andrew Cuomo just gave his favorite punching bag another heavy workout, taking Mayor Bill de Blasio on task for anti-police graffiti that disfigures public buildings across Lower Manhattan. Too bad he didn’t have much to say about the anti-police politicians who ruined New York’s public square. Or the spent …
Read More »Nonprofit Sues Blasio for Allowing BLM Mural and Blocking Others
A conservative group of women sued Mayor de Blasio and the city’s Department of Transportation for allowing a Black Lives Matter mural to be painted in front of Trump Tower, but prevented them from making a similar mural. In the lawsuit filed Thursday night in Manhattan federal court, Women for …
Read More »By giving up graffiti, de Blasio opens the door to further decline
Mayor Bill de Blasio canceled a graffiti eradication program that cleaned up private buildings, deliberately sending the city into its worst days of crime and misery. Nothing sent a stronger signal in the late 1980s that New York was determined to defend itself against lawlessness than the transit system’s campaign …
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