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.
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.