Bloomberg: What the hell is his problem?

Cant stand this fuck and his smug face

and his absent snowplows

janette sadik-khan makes up for a lot of other stuff, like I'm not sure that even a progressive dem mayor would be as good as he's been on this subject

she went to my college

just found out who that is.

you have got to be fucking kidding.

She is an ethnic Tatar.

thank her when you don't get hit by a car on PPW, morbs. dunno how you can bitch about nyc politics...and transit...yet have (proudly) not heard of the very prominent DOT commissioner??

pedestrian plazas for tourists on Broadway!

see deck chairs, Titanic

(I am pretty much never on PPW)

also, on urban "greening": a fucking pissdrop in the ocean

she's "prominent" to the MSM Entertainment Circus

and his absent snowplows

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, December 27, 2010 7:48 PM Bookmark

Stop being such a self-entitled prick. The city is in really bad financial shape and it's not his fault.

he's fucking sold it further down the river like Prick Rudy, Prick Dinkins and Prick Koch.

also lol, he got the third term under cover of being THE FINANCIAL GENIUS WE NEEDED!!!!!

tourists shouldn't have to get hit by taxis either. it's a small but important step of a bigger process - shutting down larger parts of broadway to cars - which is pretty fucking revolutionary as far as american urbanism goes. he's a corporate fuck on a lot of things, but try and find another american mayor who'd push for congestion pricing like he did. times square is the biggest success story, but most of the progress is more subtle - there are pedestrian plazas throughout the city and new ones are being built at a pretty rapid pace. and hundreds of miles of bike lanes. and protected bus lanes.

also, on urban "greening": a fucking pissdrop in the ocean

nyc easily the greenest city in america already

I CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE HERE

move to queens ffs

you can't afford to live in the posh parts of nyc because it's become increasingly appealing to live here. that's annoying, but the solution isn't "make times square shitty and dangerous again" but rather "seriously increase the amount of housing in the nyc area"

In Philadelphia the streets look like this a week after a snowstorm. I'm all for not giving any leader a free pass no matter what, but I don't think you've ever given a moment's thought to what it might actually take to govern a city (xposts).

bike lanes are sweet but basically got no love for this guy

A good city leader would work on creating a sustainable and equitable living environment for as many citizens as possible. Bloomberg worked hard as hell to take away public resources and put them in the hands of his business friends, and one of his primary "missions" was further bottlenecking New York's economy to high-end industries that are currently propped up by moral hazard from our federal government, done at the expense of the living standards of middle and lower-income New Yorkers.

Can't put all the blame on him, though, it might just be a result of how screwed up our economy and society in general is right now.

liked when he got smacked down on the west side stadium cause he didnt kiss the right rings p funny

http://tv.gawker.com/5719257/watch-sanitation-workers-destroy-a-ford-explorer-in-brooklyn-today

lol atl

oops

no pity for brooklyn heights ford explorers

"seriously increase the amount of housing in the nyc area"

Clearly not as big a priority as "plow 79th Street first, where Bloomberg lives."

I don't think you've ever given a moment's thought to what it might actually take to govern a city

^Kool-Aid drinker who accepts that a city must be minimally governed for the workers so the millionaires and tourists can be prioritized.

you can't afford to live in the posh parts of nyc

I'm talking about "middle-class" Kensington.

Spectrum otm

you can't afford to live in the posh parts of nyc because it's become increasingly appealing to live here.

lmao

must be bcz the city is in really bad financial shape

I know a guy who pays $200 a month in kensington (w/ roommates, but still.) sucks that hipsters are gonna price you out of brooklyn, cause yeah, even the lower half of the borough is ridiculously overpriced for the most part. but again, until it's unaffordable to live in queens, the bronx and the path-y parts of jersey, it's hard to accept the argument "I can't afford to live here." there are literally millions of lower-income people who manage to pay their rent.

I mean here in Brooklyn, where all my friends are (in other neighborhoods).

anyway:

http://www.salon.com/news/michael_bloomberg/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/12/28/bloomberg_christie_snow

haa did christie even have a reputation for effectiveness, i thought he just ate sandwiches and yelled at people

he is also #1 SPRINGSTEEN FAN 4EVA

I want springsteen to write a song about the arc tunnel

http://www.r8ny.com/blog/larry_littlefield

this guy has a good blog and the best take on the situation I've read. nate silver's is okay but also kinda ridiculous.

silver obvs enjoyed putting his together v much

srsly

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/nyregion/30ride.html?_r=1

I don't think you've ever given a moment's thought to what it might actually take to govern a city

"Kool-Aid drinker who accepts that a city must be minimally governed for the workers so the millionaires and tourists can be prioritized."

Um, maybe more like guy whose family lived in NYC for a couple of generations and experienced what it was like for "the workers" in prior decades (dad lost public school teaching job, aunt got mugged several times, etc.)

Yeah it sucks that NYC is so expensive now and I don't like banks and starbucks on every corner and russian tourists knocking me over because I stand in between them and century 21 either, but there are tradeoffs and cities need some kind of tax base. Bloomberg has been much better at prioritizing affordable housing policy than Giuliani was, fwiw. I know he's cozy with the finance industry but you also can't blame him for macroeconomic trends, the return of the rich to cities, etc.

can I blame him for making a mealymouthed "It Gets Better" video 2 days after cutting the hell out of homeless youth programs?

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/01/michael-bloomberg-it-gets-better.html

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this guy

he's a 1-3 incher alright

boom

dr morbius, the man with a phd in mayoral dick jokes

hi5s

apology from a flunky!

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-10/bloomberg-aide-apologizes-for-mistakes-in-blizzard.html

lol you still aren't over this? cars couldn't drive for 2 days, boo hoo, end of the world

I don't own a car, so wtf u talkin bout

right me neither, which is why roads not getting plowed didn't really ruin my day

could you get out of your 'hood by train? I couldn't, for 2 days.

yeah the 7 was running. but the subway problems weren't Bloomberg's fault.

:p

WALKING to the subway (or the supermarket) might've been helped by plowing too.