So did an audience-member, a small business owner, lament at last week’s forum on “High-Rent Blight,” hosted by State Senator Brad Hoylman.
FIT’s auditorium was full of people imploring the elected officials present: Hoylman and Manhattan Borough President Gail Brewer, to do something to restore affordable commercial rents.
We live in a city that now caters solely to the municipal, national, and international wealthy.
Scribes Jeremiah Moss and Tim Wu also had a lot to say at this forum.
Moss recommended Julian Brash’s book “Bloomberg’s New York,” which I started reading today. The book makes clear that Emperor Bloomberg’s takeover of municipal government was something of a dry run for Trump’s attempt to transform America into a dictatorship.
No, democratic governance should not be run like a business-nor like a totalitarian state.