2/2: #NYC: Mayor Adams the FBI, the migrant crisis, the annual budget, the commercial real estate collapse, the unknowns. Harry Siegel, TheCity.com, NY Daily News. Nicole Gelinas, Manhattan Institute, New York Post.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 11 November 2023
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2/2: #NYC: Mayor Adams the FBI, the migrant crisis, the annual budget, the commercial real estate collapse, the unknowns. Harry Siegel, TheCity.com, NY Daily News. Nicole Gelinas, Manhattan Institute, New York Post.
https://nypost.com/2023/11/05/opinion/fbi-probe-shows-theres-much-potential-for-corruption-in-mayor-adams-circle/
https://manhattan.institute/article/the-collapse-of-new-yorks-immigration-dream
https://nypost.com/2023/10/29/opinion/adams-cant-declare-migrant-victory-until-he-closes-the-roosevelt-hotel-shelter/
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| 0:38.9 | I highly recommend, as well as a columnist at the New York Daily News and we're joined also by our guest |
| 0:45.6 | Nicole Jilinas of the Manhattan Institute where she's a senior fellow and a |
| 0:50.6 | columnist at the New York Post. |
| 0:52.1 | Nicole you've written very carefully about the city budget that we now understand is woefully, |
| 0:59.0 | overwhelmingly funded for the next year with issues that raise where the money is coming from. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm thinking of the failure of We Work, the better idea for how to gain office space that is now going into bankruptcy |
| 1:16.7 | chapter 11 pointing to the fact that many city landlords are now going to be short of the revenue that they were counting on and the |
| 1:24.8 | city counts on those landlords to pay taxes. That connects me to a column you |
| 1:29.2 | published at the post about the shortfall already in the city budget. |
| 1:35.0 | Four billion for the migrants, that's an emergency, |
| 1:38.0 | but the rest of the budget, is it paid for Nicole |
| 1:41.0 | before the bad news comes from commercial real estate. |
| 1:44.0 | Yes, so more than three and a half years after the COVID pandemic started, most of the country |
| 1:52.0 | has moved on and recovered. Most of day-to-day life has gotten back to normal. But in certain big cities, including San Francisco and New York, that is not the case. What are the reasons for that? |
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