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.
