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I like how NYC is cleaning up its act lately. It’s like it got over Covid and suddenly realized it’s the greatest city in the world and better start acting like it.

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It also is swinging back towards caring about quality of life issues after a bout of other (and unachieved) priorities in the last two mayoral terms.

This isn’t remotely accurate. Mayoral politics in NYC is eternally dominated by basic quality of life issues. It’s the single thing that dominates voting in the city.

I’ve been much more impressed with the city council than the mayor as of late. Our esteemed mayor seems to have more of a taste for cutting QoL projects (like compost collection, and bike lane expansion) than he does for cultivating them.

Hugely editorialized. DeBlasio routinely dismissed quality of life issues, instructing the NYPD to cease enforcement on the subways, cutting the sanitation budget, and a hundred other things. The homeless population and petty crime blossomed even before covid. Adams was elected literally because of the backlash.

Whether he's effective can be debated, sure.

What makes New York the “greatest city in the world”? People from New York like to say that but I’ve never understood why it’s true in any objective sense.

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