Oh, and Dinkins was SUCH a paragon of mayoral competence. First thing he did was commission himself an $11,000 HEADBOARD on city money. No kidding. He also reigned over the Squeegee Man plague and held back police from policing the rampaging blacks in Crown Heights, resulting in the only modern pogrom I ever heard of and the death of an innocent rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum HY”D.
Thousands of murders each year on his watch, and he spent most of his time at the courts of Forest Hills (tennis, for those not in the know). Second worst Mayor in the last 100 years, the first being the execrable John Vliet Lindsay.