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Question: Best Mayor of NYC since LaGuardia?
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William O'Dwyer (1946-1950)		  
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Vincent Impellitteri (1950-1953)		  
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Robert Wagner (1954-1965)		  
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John Lindsay (1965-1973)		  
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Abe Beame (1974-1977)		  
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Ed Koch (1978-1989)		  
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David Dinkins (1990-1993)		  
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Rudy Giuliani (1994-2001)		  
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Michael Bloomberg (2002-2013)		  
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Bill DeBlasio (2013-present)		  
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« on: August 24, 2018, 05:59:01 PM »
Who has been the best since LaGuardia?
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« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2018, 06:26:47 PM »
It's not exactly an inspiring list is it? I suspect it would be more accurate to invert the question and ask which of that shower was the worst?
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« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2018, 06:35:38 PM »
Quote from: Filuwaśrdjan on August 24, 2018, 06:26:47 PM
It's not exactly an inspiring list is it? I suspect it would be more accurate to invert the question and ask which of that shower was the worst?

Lindsay?
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« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2018, 06:38:11 PM »
probably DeBlasio actually. Which is saying almost nothing about him and everything about the rest.
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« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2018, 07:42:45 PM »
Lindsay..?
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« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2018, 07:54:15 PM »

Again, if we’re choosing worst.
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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2018, 08:54:57 PM »
Koch and Giuliani.

Giuliani's exemplary leadership during 9/11/01 cannot be denied.

Regardless of his legacy now with him associated with Trump.

David Dinkins or Ruth Messinger could not handle 9/11 the way Giuliani did.
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« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2018, 10:00:09 PM »
1. Rudy
2. Bloomberg
3. Koch
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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2018, 10:32:15 PM »
Quote from: The Conflict on August 24, 2018, 06:38:11 PM
probably DeBlasio actually. Which is saying almost nothing about him and everything about the rest.

Technically this is true. Though I'd vote Ed Koch since that was the last time the city was affordable. NYC was still affordable under Dinkins but he was was a disaster.
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« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2018, 10:44:17 PM »
Having read about the earlier ones some more, I have to vote for Wagner, his record on gay bars not withstanding. At least he actually accomplished positive things.

Quote from: Filuwaúrdjan on August 24, 2018, 06:26:47 PM
It's not exactly an inspiring list is it? I suspect it would be more accurate to invert the question and ask which of that shower was the worst?

Dinkins is basically the canonical answer to this question, no?
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« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2018, 01:07:15 AM »
Rudy Giuliani
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« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2018, 01:09:25 AM »
Wagner
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« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2018, 02:40:23 AM »
Lindsay, but I actually liked Giuliani's and Bloomberg's tenures too.
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« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2018, 07:37:09 AM »

Lindsay and Beame were disasters as mayor. Dinkins wasn't much better.
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« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2018, 11:06:23 AM »
Bloomberg.
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« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2018, 11:12:11 AM »
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« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2018, 11:17:04 AM »
Quote from: Hrvatska na sve! on August 24, 2018, 06:35:38 PM
Quote from: Filuwaśrdjan on August 24, 2018, 06:26:47 PM
It's not exactly an inspiring list is it? I suspect it would be more accurate to invert the question and ask which of that shower was the worst?

Lindsay?

He would have my vote for wooden spoon, yeah. A lot of the later Mayors regarded as utter fyckups (and, in fairness, they were indeed utter fyckups) had to negotiate very difficult terrain created by Lindsay's Olympian incompetence.
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« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2018, 11:30:52 AM »
Quote from: Filuwaśrdjan on August 25, 2018, 11:17:04 AM
Quote from: Hrvatska na sve! on August 24, 2018, 06:35:38 PM
Quote from: Filuwaśrdjan on August 24, 2018, 06:26:47 PM
It's not exactly an inspiring list is it? I suspect it would be more accurate to invert the question and ask which of that shower was the worst?

Lindsay?

He would have my vote for wooden spoon, yeah. A lot of the later Mayors regarded as utter fyckups (and, in fairness, they were indeed utter fyckups) had to negotiate very difficult terrain created by Lindsay's Olympian incompetence.

I’ve got virtually no knowledge of NYC public policy/urban history- why was Lindsay so awful?
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« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2018, 11:33:57 AM »
Quote from: Justice Blair on August 25, 2018, 11:30:52 AM
Quote from: Filuwaśrdjan on August 25, 2018, 11:17:04 AM
Quote from: Hrvatska na sve! on August 24, 2018, 06:35:38 PM
Quote from: Filuwaśrdjan on August 24, 2018, 06:26:47 PM
It's not exactly an inspiring list is it? I suspect it would be more accurate to invert the question and ask which of that shower was the worst?

Lindsay?

He would have my vote for wooden spoon, yeah. A lot of the later Mayors regarded as utter fyckups (and, in fairness, they were indeed utter fyckups) had to negotiate very difficult terrain created by Lindsay's Olympian incompetence.

I’ve got virtually no knowledge of NYC public policy/urban history- why was Lindsay so awful?
He personally did very little to stop NYC's urban decline in the late '60s and early '70s. Thus, NYC went into the "Dark Ages" during the late '70s and 1980s.
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« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2018, 12:18:12 PM »
Quote from: New Frontier on August 25, 2018, 11:33:57 AM
Quote from: Justice Blair on August 25, 2018, 11:30:52 AM
Quote from: Filuwaśrdjan on August 25, 2018, 11:17:04 AM
Quote from: Hrvatska na sve! on August 24, 2018, 06:35:38 PM
Quote from: Filuwaśrdjan on August 24, 2018, 06:26:47 PM
It's not exactly an inspiring list is it? I suspect it would be more accurate to invert the question and ask which of that shower was the worst?

Lindsay?

He would have my vote for wooden spoon, yeah. A lot of the later Mayors regarded as utter fyckups (and, in fairness, they were indeed utter fyckups) had to negotiate very difficult terrain created by Lindsay's Olympian incompetence.

I’ve got virtually no knowledge of NYC public policy/urban history- why was Lindsay so awful?
He personally did very little to stop NYC's urban decline in the late '60s and early '70s. Thus, NYC went into the "Dark Ages" during the late '70s and 1980s.

Huh. Bloomberg it is, then.
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« Reply #20 on: August 25, 2018, 12:22:18 PM »
Guiliani
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