![]() ![]() ![]() From Seattle and San Francisco to Chicago and New York, commercial real estate vacancies mixed with soft-on-crime mayors and high taxes are creating a new vicious cycle of urban flight. Surveying the United States today, there are lessons from New York City’s past that should inform ongoing debates about America’s big cities. Don’t expect it to take less than 30 years.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then New York senator, said at one public hearing on juvenile violence in 1993, “There is nothing you’ll do of any consequence, except start the process of change. Political leadership had come to regard the city’s ills as intractable pathologies. In 1991, surveys indicated that more than half of New Yorkers wanted to leave. After three decades of policy futility, New Yorkers were giving up. From John Lindsay to David Dinkins, mayor after mayor had tried to tackle these problems. ![]() Crime was endemic, schools were failing, poverty was pervasive and the economy stagnated. “Given New York Today, Could Anyone Lead It?” a 1991 New York Times headline bemoaned after decades of failure and futility. ![]()
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