What To Expect From The New Liberal Era Of New York City

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http://www.businessinsider.com/new-liberal-era-of-new-york-city-2013-12


Bill de Blasio starts January 1.

PLAYING IT DIFFERENTLY

The shift in tone in city government is already apparent.

Earlier this month, the City Council took the rare step of rejecting a rezoning of Manhattan's East Side, delivering a blow to Bloomberg and developers who had forcefully backed the plan.

Then, the city's mass-transit agency announced it was cutting its planned fare increases for 2015 and 2017 by nearly half. The agency cited an improved fiscal outlook, but Gene Russianoff, a lawyer and the spokesman for the New York Public Interest Research Group's Straphangers Campaign, said he saw the move as reflecting a changed political climate.

"They realized in the current political atmosphere it's unsustainable to raise the fare a lot every year," Russianoff said. "Bloomberg's attitude was, 'Everything goes up.' I think de Blasio will play it differently."



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[Sanity Claws]

1. Commissioner Ray Kelly is as big a prick as always

http://gothamist.com/2013/11/29/ray_kelly_puts_transition_team_in_t.php

Can you imagine that? He must have a lot of files to shred and burn.