Don't forget that NY is a city that doesn't produce anything, no factories of not, no oil, no agricultural development, all it produces is service and host financial systems and company offices.
It's easy to move a company office, not to easy to move services but doable, and people moving out can increase, which decreases the tax base which increases problems.
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.
Don't forget that NY is a city that doesn't produce anything, no factories of not, no oil, no agricultural development, all it produces is service and host financial systems and company offices.
It's easy to move a company office, not to easy to move services but doable, and people moving out can increase, which decreases the tax base which increases problems.
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.