They hated Rudy for cleaning up their city, reducing the murder rate by more than half, cleaning up the subways, reducing street crime, getting the whores off the streets outside the tunnels, cleaning up the grafitti, and assorted other quality of life improvements.
It was their city and they liked it as a hell hole.
And now, not even four full years later, many of the problems are returning under Mayor Blooming-idiot. It is becoming Dinkins time again.
After being shunted off to Brooklyn for awhile, I understand the Porno palaces are returning to 8th Avenue again.