Metropolis Comptroller and mayoral wannabe Brad Lander’s laundry checklist of “vital threats” to New York Metropolis from the second Trump time period hit us with main déjà vu — because of the 2017 warnings issued on the behest of Lander’s mannequin, Invoice de Blasio.
In late February 2017, NYC & Co. — the town’s tourism and advertising arm, managed by then-Mayor de Blasio — predicted Trump’s “current journey ban and associated rhetoric” would cancel an estimated 300,000 tourism visits from overseas, slamming Broadway and the hospitality trade.
As with most all the things Blas (or Lander), the shameless and overwrought “Hen Little” predictions proved … completely false.
Nearly a 12 months later, de Blasio introduced that the town had set a tourism file in 2017 — 49.7 million home and 13.1 million worldwide guests.
Each numbers have been all-time highs and represented a 3.8% enhance over 2016.
Broadway League stats confirmed that the 2017-18 season grossed $1.7 billion as theater attendance neared 14 million — up from $1.45 billion in income and 13 million attendees in 2016-17.
Right this moment, Lander’s largest issues boil all the way down to Group Trump threatening the multibillion-dollar federal gravy prepare that funds the nonprofit-industrial advanced he and different Democrats lean on for political help.
In the meantime, New Yorkers nonetheless await Lander’s threat evaluation of the disastrous felony reforms and sanctuary metropolis legal guidelines that, together with the Biden migrant disaster, have seen neighborhoods and business strips overrun with ranges of criminality not seen in many years.
As soon as once more, progressives are proving completely out of contact with the issues and priorities of extraordinary New Yorkers.
On a regular basis New Yorkers know the town didn’t undergo beneath Trump administration insurance policies.
What despatched the town into an financial tailspin was the 1-2 punch of the 2019 state “felony justice reforms” adopted by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s prolonged and excessive COVID lockdowns — after which the Biden-welcomed waves of “asylum seekers.”
Trump could threaten to maneuver Lander’s cheese, however his insurance policies are the reverse of a menace to NYC.
