Honored to know Hizzoner<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve had mayors to the right of us \u2014 and now way-the-hell to the left of us.<\/p>\n
As all civilization knows, I am not one to complain or criticize. But mostly mayors schlep to other countries to get photographed on free trips then \u2014 once back \u2014 stand in front of microphones to read what some low-leveler wrote for them, then allow a chorus to stand and pose behind them nodding sagely at their non-words before patting the electee on the back and remembering to say how great his wife looks.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve had a few of these mayors \u2014 in no order of ability:<\/p>\n
De Blasio<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 excuse the expression \u2014 a dud. My apologies to Dudblasio but he rates four oys.<\/p>\n Giuliani. For whom we were grateful and who then cleaned up New York \u2014 and who then got cleaned up by\u00a0Donald.<\/a><\/p>\n One-termer Abe Beame left us bankrupt. For chow mein he took me to\u00a0Brooklyn! The only Chinese place he knew.<\/p>\n A load of deals ago, our very first mayor was Thomas Willett, grabbed two terms. We were\u00a0Andrew Cuomo-less then.<\/p>\n Along the line came Stephanus Van Cortlandt. The first native-born Hizzoner. What he did, I don\u2019t know. I didn\u2019t come along for another few weeks. He got a park.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n David Dinkins<\/a>, my friend, doesn\u2019t get big thanks \u2014 but he was my close friend. Let nobody knock him \u2014 he brought us\u00a0Ray Kelly. Also he\u2019s mentioned as having been the worst mayor.<\/p>\n Best of all the beauties \u2014 La Guardia. My late husband was brought up by that man. We have his desk in our home.<\/p>\n Bloomberg\u00a0was A-1. He stopped the smoking in restaurants. Also he pushed up tennis, Ashe Stadium.<\/p>\n Koch. Terrific. He stopped the financial bleeding of our city, which was nearly bankrupt.<\/p>\n Our most colorful? Jimmy Walker. NYC\u2019s chief executive who mayored from 1926 to 1932. Like\u00a0Eric Adams<\/a>, a nighttime guy. Saloons. Speakeasies. Late nights. What either accomplished, not sure. These guys earn $260,000 a year. Walker, however, is now in NY\u2019s Gate of Heaven Cemetery.<\/p>\n So we now got a Mrs. Mayor. She\u2019s 28,\u00a0Rama Duwaji.<\/a> Muslim. Syrian ancestry. A Palestinian made her Election Day dress. We\u2019re told, \u201cShe shaped him<\/a>.\u201d We learn she \u201crages against US imperialism.\u201d We\u2019re told, \u201cShe\u2019s an accomplished artist.\u201d When he won her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 added \u201caccomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n So, what\u2019s a mayor actually do? Oversees the police department, 30,000 cops, which this man wants to limit. Watches the city budget, measly $115 billion. Watches 100 city agencies. Creates public policy. Vetoes bad legislation. Organizes City Council stuff, oversees NYC integrity. Advocates for funds at federal level, oversees public duties, plans budget policy, vetoes local laws, manages federal whatever-the-hells, oversees city and state laws, watches public agencies, administers city laws and micromanages some other things. And that\u2019s all for only Monday.<\/p>\n But we elected him. So congratulations to him. Best to his wife. I certainly hope she reminds him: no spitting, no garbage piling up, no scaffolding, no rats, no roaches, no bicycles, no antisemitism, no free buses, no stealing, no exorbitant prices, no empty stores, no exorbitant rents, no religious hatred, no druggies walking around.<\/p>\n Welcome to New York City,\u00a0Mamdanis.<\/p>\n The oldest human passed on recently. The secret to his long life? A glass of red wine nightly. Should that be true, let us look forward to another someday mayoralty with\u00a0Eric Adams.<\/p>\n Only in New York, kids, only in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Honored to know Hizzoner We\u2019ve had mayors to the right of us \u2014 and now way-the-hell to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9894,14743,14740,21467,12363,9,11,10,299,14738,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-36623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-bill-de-blasio","9":"tag-david-dinkins","10":"tag-ed-koch","11":"tag-jimmy-walker","12":"tag-michael-bloomberg","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-opinion","17":"tag-rudy-giuliani","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}