Opinion of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Performance in New York

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Pretty darn excellent, in large part due to his forward-thinking transportation policies.  Doing things like advocating for congestion pricing and installing many miles of bike lanes may rile up the short-sighted, entitled, windshield perspective NIMBYs and thereby make him unpopular, but are quite obviously the right thing to do.  Same goes for things like upzoning Midtown East and encouraging Hudson Yards development- the city absolutely does need more people, certainly at least as long as the country is growing in population it cannot be anything but a net win for humanity to increase development here.

Not everything he has done is perfectly implemented, okay- the way the soda ban was to be implemented raised serious problems with consistency and fairness.  And even though he's been better w/r/t community relations and policing than Giuliani was, there's still lots of room for improvement there, to say the least.

But, on balance, he's done a pretty damn good job.