https://www.isegoria.net/2013/09/what-is-a-mayors-job/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:10:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2013/09/what-is-a-mayors-job/comment-page-1/#comment-942004 Faze Tue, 03 Sep 2013 22:14:13 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=32558#comment-942004 Thanks for posting this. Every word of it is true. There is no way of overstating the extent to which criminals ruled NYC in the 70s, and this piece brings back many memories: the locks, the window gratings, the muggings and the break-ins. When I was living on the Upper West Side, I wondered that all these anti-authority liberals allowed themselves to live in a city where a violent criminal elite enforced these rules of behavior (such as are described in this post) under pain of beating or death. Who can forget those meek, begging signs that hung in the window of every car up and down the streets of the Upper West Side: “No radio.”

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