Nicole
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Felony crime in Central Park, ytd, is nearly 62 percent higher than in the year before the pandemic. Like many parts of NYC, Central Park is consistently less safe than it once was. Yet the city council and mayor are moving to take away dozens of pairs of Jane-Jacobs-style eyes on the street from the park -- the men and women slowly and continuously viewing the drive and paths from up high in a carriage, including into the evening and late-night hours. Ripping apart complex urbanism for fanatical special interests is rarely a good idea.
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It is significant that the proto-typical low-information NYC voter (people who rely on the NYT solely for their news and opinion and by doing that think they are well-informed even though they are basically anti-informed) is now starting to start to start to start to grasp that underfunding is not a problem in the NYC school system. At. all.
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Frank is one of the only Mamdani critics who has kept his head in this moment. The broader consistent attempt to de-normalize Mamdani as a human being, which has gone on for a year and a half and which reached its embarrassing/disgraceful nadir on 9/11, is, purely as a political matter, not going to work, anyway.
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