Socialism\u2019s true believers who cast their ballots for Zohran Mamdani should take note of how the perpetually grinning mayor-to-be thanks them for their votes: with a big, fat kiss-off. <\/p>\n
Mamdani coldly blew off lower Manhattanites who overwhelmingly voted for him by taking the wrong side in the long-running dispute over the beloved Elizabeth Street Garden, which City Hall had earmarked for demolition until Mayor Adams came to his senses last spring.<\/p>\n
Mamdani wants to replace the green oasis with low-income housing.<\/p>\n
The Elizabeth Street Garden in Nolita. Stephen Yang for the New York Post<\/p>\n
But Adams, in one of his finest moments, thwarted him by designating the city-owned parcel as a public park \u2014 a brave stroke that left Mamdani fuming.<\/p>\n
Beware, New Yorkers! Let it be a wake-up call to woke New Yorkers who sucked up to<\/p>\n
Mamdani: He repaid the favor by biting them on their commie-coddling butts.<\/p>\n
Residents of the garden\u2019s Nolita neighborhood, and of bordering Soho, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side, swallowed Mamdani\u2019s \u201cdemocratic socialist\u201d malarkey to give him up to 70% in some election districts, according to Board of Elections records.<\/p>\n
Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election. AP<\/p>\n
They surely weren\u2019t counting on their grinning idol to ruin their modestly sized paradise they spent years fighting to preserve.<\/p>\n
The irony would be exquisite if it weren\u2019t so infuriating. The Elizabeth Street garden between Prince and Spring streets has been a beloved neighborhood gathering place since the 1990s when a next-door gallery owner leased it from the city, provided new landscaping and installed a jolly mix of old statues, funky art and seats.<\/p>\n
Local organizations that fought to save the garden were an all-star activist lineup whose names alone conveyed their political and cultural postures.<\/p>\n
Preservation cause Among them: Downtown Independent Democrats, Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens, the Municipal Art Society of New York, the NoHo Neighborhood Association, the Soho Alliance, Earth Justice, Farms Not Arms, Green<\/p>\n
The Elizabeth Street Garden in Nolita in lower Manhattan. Stephen Yang for the New York Post<\/p>\n
Guerrillas, the New York City Community Garden Coalition and the Trust for Public Land.<\/p>\n
Why would Mamdani run roughshod over community wishes to pave over more green space just to create a whopping 123 apartments, which would do zero to alleviate a citywide scarcity of hundreds of thousands of them?<\/p>\n
That he trampled on his enthusiasts came as no surprise in light of his graceless post-victory remarks that were less an \u201cacceptance speech\u201d than a revival of Fidel Castro\u2019s anti-western tirades after his communist brigades took over Cuba.<\/p>\n
He can\u2019t let a few neighborhood cranks stand in the way of his zeal to \u201crescue\u201d the poor, irrespective of its ineffectiveness or collateral damage it brings to neighborhoods or to the city as a whole.<\/p>\n
The Elizabeth Street Garden in Nolita is slated to be demolished and turned into an affordable housing complex. Stephen Yang for the New York Post<\/p>\n
So thanks, Eric Adams, for keeping the Elizabeth Street Garden out of his clutches. Too bad he<\/p>\n
won\u2019t be around to save other fine neighborhoods from Mamdani\u2019s cruel whims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Socialism\u2019s true believers who cast their ballots for Zohran Mamdani should take note of how the perpetually grinning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,9,24,55,54,56,10649,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-44736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-metro","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-parks","15":"tag-us-news","16":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44736","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=44736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}