Readers would never have heard of Zohran Mamdani if New York weren’t the richest, most capitalistic city on earth. It’s that simple. Where wealth is being created abundantly, there’s also an abundance of individuals seeking to demagogue that wealth. So, while Mamdani’s rise in the richest, most capitalistic city on earth is disheartening, it […]
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If Zohran Mamdani could “ruin” New York City, then it wouldn’t be worth saving. And New York City doesn’t require saving, except to the willfully blind. What you’re about to read isn’t a defense of Mamdani, or his government grocery store policies, wage floors, and soak-the-rich socialism. Not at all. At the same time
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When asked if he attended his Lincoln High School (Brooklyn) reunions, the recently passed New York City real estate mogul and civic leader Marshall Rose said he did not, that he thought most of his classmates would have been in jail. In the New York Times obituary (written by Sam Roberts) from which the previous anecdote came,
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“He was just the waiter.” That’s what one of the owners of legendary New York steakhouse Peter Luger said about Wolfgang Zwiener. “All” he’d done over the decades was wait tables at Luger’s, and this ordinary former employee was in the process of opening his own, eponymous steakhouse to compete not just with Luger’s,
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