"The sections of the Senate District with younger, newer residents helped power Myrie’s victory" Younger, newer also means whiter and richer, people who from Iowa who put "writer from Brooklyn" in their twitter profile and like Ryan Cooper in Philadelphia, move in with help from their parents and buy a house to live in –alone– pontificating about the need for increased population density, while actually decreasing it. I live in Queens. One of my neighbors said 10 years ago. "Do you think the Manhattanites will take over? I hope not. I like the diversity" The Manhattanites have taken over. In my immigrant neighborhood that means the Americans have taken over. I've read defenses of looting, by hipsters who'd call the shopkeepers Kulaks if they knew what the word meant.
Extremely accurate except for stating that Diana Richardson is closely aligned with progressive and socialist organizations. She is in office neither because of them or in spite of them. She is extremely popular in her district — that includes progressives but I’m just not sure where you got this take from.
I think you might be misinterpreting her staunch independence from the Brooklyn Dems with a marriage to progressives. Nope — Diana is her own thing.
"There has not been a real Democratic machine mayor since Ed Koch swept into office more than 40 years ago."
I don't think that "machine mayors" are any better or worse than other mayors. But I do have to note: Ed Koch made his bones by running against the last really powerful Tammany boss, Carmine DeSapio. And Koch was succeeded by David Dinkins, a product of Percy Sutton's Democratic club in Harlem.
"The sections of the Senate District with younger, newer residents helped power Myrie’s victory" Younger, newer also means whiter and richer, people who from Iowa who put "writer from Brooklyn" in their twitter profile and like Ryan Cooper in Philadelphia, move in with help from their parents and buy a house to live in –alone– pontificating about the need for increased population density, while actually decreasing it. I live in Queens. One of my neighbors said 10 years ago. "Do you think the Manhattanites will take over? I hope not. I like the diversity" The Manhattanites have taken over. In my immigrant neighborhood that means the Americans have taken over. I've read defenses of looting, by hipsters who'd call the shopkeepers Kulaks if they knew what the word meant.
“Go back to Iowa..You go back to Ohio." I'm almost impressed.
Extremely accurate except for stating that Diana Richardson is closely aligned with progressive and socialist organizations. She is in office neither because of them or in spite of them. She is extremely popular in her district — that includes progressives but I’m just not sure where you got this take from.
I think you might be misinterpreting her staunch independence from the Brooklyn Dems with a marriage to progressives. Nope — Diana is her own thing.
"There has not been a real Democratic machine mayor since Ed Koch swept into office more than 40 years ago."
I don't think that "machine mayors" are any better or worse than other mayors. But I do have to note: Ed Koch made his bones by running against the last really powerful Tammany boss, Carmine DeSapio. And Koch was succeeded by David Dinkins, a product of Percy Sutton's Democratic club in Harlem.