NY mayors talk like this because Albany doesn't give a shit about them. So he knows his rhetoric is safe because it can't possibly go anywhere significant.
You need to remember that hive city NYC has something on the order of 11 or 12 million residents, while the state has an estimated twenty million. I know that the "official" figures say that the hive has somethingile 8.8 million, but we both know that's not counting illegals and foreigners who aren't reported on the census; the logistics of consumed basics like toilet paper suggest the number is underreported by a quarter.
Even going by official figures, if almost half of the entire voting base of a state live in the hive city, it had an obscenely disproportional effect on everything that happens in it.
So I don't think it's wise to say that NY mayors have no sway.
I think they all view NYC as a separate animal than NYS, eh? Albany does what it wants and NYC does what IT wants & rarely do the two even talk about it.
Like Illinois...
NYC holds 0.5% of NY area.
NY mayors talk like this because Albany doesn't give a shit about them. So he knows his rhetoric is safe because it can't possibly go anywhere significant.
You need to remember that hive city NYC has something on the order of 11 or 12 million residents, while the state has an estimated twenty million. I know that the "official" figures say that the hive has somethingile 8.8 million, but we both know that's not counting illegals and foreigners who aren't reported on the census; the logistics of consumed basics like toilet paper suggest the number is underreported by a quarter.
Even going by official figures, if almost half of the entire voting base of a state live in the hive city, it had an obscenely disproportional effect on everything that happens in it.
So I don't think it's wise to say that NY mayors have no sway.
I think they all view NYC as a separate animal than NYS, eh? Albany does what it wants and NYC does what IT wants & rarely do the two even talk about it.
Like Illinois...