Just out of curiosity... Does the Mayor-elect have any management/executive experience? I know he was something called a "public advocate." Isn't that like a community organizer??
Obama was the first man elected to the Presidency with no executive experience since Sen. Kennedy. (Who was the last non-executive before Kennedy??) Anyway, we are seeing the results of a "manager" who is learning on the job.
I think things will crash and burn in NYC in the not too distant future...
“...since Senator Kennedy...” I think commanding a patrol torpedo boat could be considered “executive experience” although not very high-level. Remind me of Mr. Obama’s service in uniform. Mr. Lincoln, other than his very short elected militia captaincy really had no executive experience that I know of. On the other hand, Presidents Washington, Jackson, Grant and Eisenhower had a ton of that sort of experience.
I remember when New York was becoming a giant ghetto back in the early Seventies and suspect it will quickly go back to that again. Doesn’t anybody remember all the pictures of the abandoned and burned out buildings in NYC and people wringing their hands, just like now with Detroit? It’ll only take a couple of years to go back to that again.
In other words, business as usual in NYC.