Who was the best NYC Mayor of the last 45 years?

[Polybius]

I'm only going back 45 years because I don't remember anyone before Ed Koch. I'm kinda torn between two, and would like to see where everyone else stands before I vote on my own poll. Please give your opinions as to why you chose as you did.

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	Ed Koch
	2 (25%)
	David Dinkins
	1 (13%)
	Rudy Giuliani
	0 (0%)
	Mike Bloomberg
	4 (50%)
	Bill de Blasio
	1 (13%)
	Eric Adams
	0 (0%)
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[Scrivener7]

1. Tough choices. I think Dinkins and DeBlasio did the least damage.

[Polybius]

7. I put them on the lower end

Bloomberg's first term was legendary. He just got carried away by his third with that soda ban.

[Scrivener7]

8. He screwed over the teachers and wrecked the school system.

He appointed a magazine publisher to run the biggest school system in the country. She lasted a year and created a shambles.

Among other things.

[Polybius]

9. During his first term I was just done with school and had no kids, and planned to move shortly

So all of the things you mentioned didn't effect me at all at the time (not to sound selfish, but we all vote for our intensions to an extent). Loved Koch too, but I was a kid.

[markpkessinger]

10. Bloomberg presided over the ridiculous boom in luxury housing development . . .

. . . which WASN'T needed, and which has resulted, today, in a city with massive luxury towers that sit half empty!

[JHB]

2. BK: Before Koch, to take it to 70 years

Abe Beame: 1974 - 1977
John Lindsay: 1966 - 1973
Robert F. Wagner Jr.: 1954 - 1965

[Polybius]

3. How about even further back to Fiorello La Guardia (1934 to 1945)

I know he was a Republican, but back in those days they weren't evil.

[marybourg]

4. I remember these two:

William O'Dwyer 1946-1950
Vincent R. Impellitteri 1950-1953

[Kaleva]

6. John Lindsay gave Mrs. Brady crabs

https://nypost.com/2011/06/25/brady-bunch-actress-ex-nyc-mayor-lindsay-gave-me-crabs/

[markpkessinger]

11. I always thought it was pretty declasse of Florence Henderson to publicize that story . . .

. . . In reality, it's something that could happen to anyone who is sexually active who happens to hook up with the wroong person.

[Kaleva]

12. And they were cheating on their spouses.

[Polybius]

13. Wow

Covered up for decades! He probably was a serial cheater.

[Tommy Carcetti]

5. NYC Mayor is a position that is vastly overstated outside the NYC limits.

Yes, it's the nation's largest city. But governing a municipality is far different than governing a country or a state, no matter what the size.

That's why all the NYC mayors who have either been rumored to be Presidential candidates or have declared have crashed and burned.

Despite what New Yorkers might think, non-New Yorkers don't put much stock or interest into the NYC mayor position beyond it being a local curiosity. They just don't.

[Polybius]

14. Looks like Bloomberg is the runaway winner

I voted for Koch in this poll, who came in a distant second.