Mayor de Blasio was resoundingly re-elected. Almost every other incumbent was also safely returned to power. NYC’s government in 2018 will look much like it has for the past four years. But rising seas, term limits, population growth and federal cuts could reshape the city and its politics even if the voters did not.
A mayor who was not known for environmental advocacy when he took office has set ambitious goals for carbon reduction, zero waste and air quality. Advocates hope he’ll turn more of those plans into reality if he’s re-elected.
Plus, the dollar figures on Gov. Cuomo’s past support for the MTA. Or lack thereof.
Our take as the debate between Michel Faulkner and Scott Stringer played out live.
Plus: Has de Blasio’s CCRB been too soft on bad cops?
While Mayor de Blasio has achieved success, faced opposition and registered failures on many issues during his first term, none played so large a role in his becoming mayor—or posed greater political risks through his tenure so far—as criminal justice.
Through human tragedy and political crisis, the mayor has delivered on specific reform promises and kept crime low. But he has fallen short of the sweeping change advocates hoped he would engineer.
‘At some point a mayoral administration that is in earnest about carrying out its agenda has to resolve that it won’t pander to any given neighborhood’s more sinister instincts.’
Can a socialist in Brooklyn, a fiscal conservative in Manhattan, a Dem in East Queens; a charter-school advocate in Harlem, and a Working Families Party candidate win the general?
"We've gotta fix what we've got."
-Mayoral candidate Bo Dietl on Rikers Island* * * *
De Blasio, Malliotakis & Dietl Engage in Raucous Mayoral Debate
Gotham Gazette
"While attacks flew throughout the night, largely from Malliotakis and Dietl toward de Blasio, on more substantive matters, the debate was largely a two-person contest, between de Blasio and…