Some Recommendations For the Next Mayor
November 8th, 2005
In today’s Daily News, Columnist Errol Louis has a to-do list for the city, now that campaigning is winding down, and governing should be taking the spotlight. Louis’ issues needing to be addressed include:
-Making credit available to low-income neighborhoods.
-Solving the nursing shortage.
-Ending the concentration of up-town bus garages, linking it to concentrated asthma rates uptown.
-Creating a policy that treats small-businesses as an “asset, not an after-thought.”
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance comments on that last recommendation saying small businesses are “threaten[ed] with extinction by the Bloomberg/Doctoroff mega-development mania”. To help small businesses, they recommend helping the merchants at the Bronx Terminal Market, supporting a pilot program on commercial waste disposers, stream-lining the municipal code, calling it a “revenue generator”, not a source of protection, and reforming eminent domain laws.
Jake at the Gothamist recommends that the next mayor stop arresting street artists.
By Mike Muller on November 8, 2005, 2:49 pmIn category: Community Development, Electoral Politics | 1 Comment »


November 8th, 2005 at 3:16 pm
Wait. That can’t be right. Surely Lewis must mean that priority #1 should be removing 50 Cent billboards, no?