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Brian Kilmeade Show

Why Die-Hard New Yorkers are Fleeing: Seth Barron Exposes the "City in Decline"

Brian Kilmeade Show

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4.12K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Seth Barron, author of The Last Days of New York, joins Brian Kilmeade to discuss the rapid decline of Gotham. As crime rates surge and businesses flee to Florida and Texas, Barron pulls back the curtain on the "disastrous incompetence" of city leadership and the progressive policies that he warns are leading NYC toward bankruptcy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

New York City, it is time for a grand experiment once again.

0:03.9

Just as LaGuardia used government to respond to the challenges of the Great Depression,

0:07.9

we will use government to respond to rising prices and unaffordable groceries.

0:13.8

Between 2013 and 2023, grocery prices increased in New York City by nearly 66%, significantly higher than the national average.

0:25.0

During our campaign, we promised New Yorkers that we would create a network of city-owned grocery stores, one in each borough.

0:32.8

And we are here today to celebrate the site of the Manhattan store, La Marquetta, which will be open by

0:39.0

2029.

0:40.1

2029.

0:40.9

It is, check the calendar, 26, three years to open a supermarket, which they admit will only

0:46.6

decrease prices marginally if they get it up and running, let alone if it's going to be a

0:50.7

unionized workplace.

0:52.4

This is the magic of 34-year-old Mayor Mondani in New York City.

0:57.0

Seth Barron joins us now, New York Post editorial board and author of a brand new book.

1:03.9

The weapon is weaponized.

1:05.7

The left's capture and destruction of America's sacred institutions.

1:10.1

How about that $30 million supermarket?

1:12.4

Seems a little pricey to me, Brian.

1:14.3

I'm not sure.

1:15.3

Unless he's planning to outfit it with, you know, like an arrow on.

1:19.4

For three years.

1:20.1

$25 strawberries.

1:21.8

Yeah, three years.

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