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Monday, 19 August 2013

Is it too early to assess the "Bloomberg Era"

Posted on 09:09 by Unknown
WNYC here (Public Radio) is running a series of programs and studies on how Michael Bloomberg changed the City of New York..

Of course, the recounting of history can be tricky, and this may not be the best vantage point from discussing the guy who wants New Yorker's to live in new micro-apartments that have only the space of half a subway car..

Or who has forced tons of New Yorker's too move far out in the City to be able to afford the housing, leaving them dependent on what has aptly been called a "Manhattan-centric" public transit system ( my last trip up to the North Bronx and back was pretty harrowing).

To say nothing of the push to knock off the Garment District etc and turn Manhattan into an isle of the rich and super-rich, and increase the income disparity of people in the City even more than it was before...

To wit:


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Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Spencer T. Tucker/flickr)
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New York, Remade
New York has been transformed in the last twelve years, in ways simultaneously wrenching and huge and intimate. And though he isn't responsible for all the revolutions we've experienced, Michael Bloomberg leaves an indelibly large mark. Today, we began to look at the ways our city has been remade by New York's first Mayor of the 21st century.

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