Conservative New York City residents (yes, they do exist), contemplating the ascension of 33-year-old, never-held-a-private-sector-job, intifada-globalizing red diaper baby socialist Zohran Mamdani to the mayoralty of one of the world’s great, and some may say greatest, cities may be wondering whether the Big Apple’s prospects could get any worse.

Let me assure you: They can.  And, very likely, will.

Some personal biographical info as evidence that this writer knows whereof he speaks.  Born and raised in Detroit, I moved to NYC in 1977, where I spent the next 40-plus years before moving to Tennessee in 2019.  During those years, I experienced seven mayoral administrations: Abe Beame, Ed Koch, David Dinkins, Bill de Blasio, Eric Adams, Rudy Giuliani, and Michael Bloomberg.

Of the seven mayors who governed (or should that be tried to govern) through my New York years, Rudy Giuliani was the best by far.  Armed with a strong law enforcement background; a great police commissioner, William Bratton; and a novel Broken Windows Theory, Giuliani worked a virtual miracle in transforming New York City from decrepit to dynamic.  In Times Square, gone were the topless bars, the three-card-monte con men, the peep shows, the porno theaters.  In their place, some of the nation’s major restaurant and retailers.  Aging subways cars festooned with graffiti were replaced with shiny graffiti-less modern ones.  The squeegee men were banished.  Mentally disturbed and violent vagrants were taken off the streets and taken to facilities where they could get the help they needed.

One would think that after the transformation Giuliani achieved and Bloomberg continued, it would be a........

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