Mr. New York.

Mark Simone on W.O.R.

Well, Michael Riedel, of course, the co-host of the Morning Show with Len Berman,

and he's author of two great books, Razzle-Dazzle and Singular Sensation.

You want to read two great books about Broadway, about New York, get Michael Reedles books.

And he's on the line with us now. Michael Rieddle, how you doing? I'm all right, Mark. How are you doing up there in New York City? I'm a little concerned for the future. What I mean up there in New York City? Where are you? The West Village, you know. Oh, oh. That's not New York City. I got to be honest with you.

I'm a little concerned about the future of the city.

I mean, you know, I don't want to take the subway.

It's getting a little bit dangerous.

When I walk around the West Village, I see a lot of homeless people camping out here that I've not seen in years.

And my concern is that we are so deep blue in the state

that they will re-elect Kathy Hokel who will continue with bail reform and all the other

nonsense policies. I mean, I love the city. You're a New Yorker. You love the city too. But we've got to write the wrongs that have been done by the progressives all this time. Well, I think it'll happen. Don't you love when they try to tell you, well, if you actually statistically, in 1975, it was much worse. Well, how does that help? Exactly. Exactly. This is the biggest, the BS on the part of the liberals is that, well, you know, crime is so. It's not like it was back in 1991 when David Dinkins, that failed mayor was in charge of things. It's not as bad as it was back then. Well, you know what? Frankly, folks, it is bad. I've been on the subway and there are lunatics walking on the platform, on the subways, in the cars in a way I've never seen it since I moved here back in 1986.

That is what's happening.

But all the liberals are trying to tell us that it's such.

Oh, the perception.

Mark, it's the perception. Mark is the perception.

Just the perception.

That's all it is.

Yeah, it was worse than the seven.

That's like, tell you, in medieval times it was much worse than this.

Right.

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