Bloomberg helped get rid of squeegeeing guys in NYC

[Jersey Devil]

Well, he followed up on Rudy’s squeegeeing purge anyway. So he can’t be all bad

[Cornus]

1. What an accomplishment!

Almost enough to get my vote...NOT!

[Jersey Devil]

3. You ever sit on River Ave on your way to Yankee Stadium

and have your windshield cleaned 6 times in 2 blocks by guys with dirty squeegees?

[Cornus]

26. No, but I often

took the Lincoln Tunnel into NYC and met up with them there. I would just turn my wipers on and they were unable to attack the windshield and just moved on to the next car...simple solution.

[2naSalit]

2. Well

shit, let's make HIM president! I hear he's got some cash too.

[UniteFightBack]

4. He also instituted the indoor smoking ban. nt

[Jersey Devil]

6. Not to mention getting hookers off Times Square

and panhandlers away from Madison Square Garden

[Dem4Life1102]

13. Which put many bars and restaurants of business

https://www.democracynow.org/2004/9/2/guantanamo_on_the_hudson_detained_rnc

https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/mayor-tax-break-net-gain-budget-plan-article-1.507707

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/bloombergs-disgraceful-eviction-of-occupy-wall-street/2011/11/15/gIQASRiqON_blog.html

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/in-an-imf-talk-bloomberg-criticized-notion-of-minimum-wage.html

[UniteFightBack]

22. That's not the way I remember it. nt

[UniteFightBack]

23. Self delete since you asserted something and then provide links to other shit. nt

[Dem4Life1102]

29. Censorship???

For 18 months after the law was enacted, business dropped off and bars and restaurants closed or cut jobs as smokers stayed home or went to private clubs and fraternal groups.

Wexler said restaurants saw a 3 to 4 percent loss of business, while bars saw an 18 percent decline and the association lost 20 percent of its membership.

https://www.uticaod.com/x997485732/NY-indoor-smoking-ban-has-changed-much-in-10-years

[HarlanPepper]

30. "Hooray for smoking! Yaaaay!"

That’s some grade A pretzel logic you’ve got going criticizing a guy because he got smoking banned indoors. The horror!111

[Dem4Life1102]

31. No I'm criticizing him because

it initially hurt small businesses and put people out of work without putting anything in place to mitigate those affects.

Nor do I think the ban excuses him from his other racist & authoritarian policies.

[Cha]

24. I would thank anyone involved in that.

[Voltaire2]

5. Rousting.

Yeah that’s an enlightened program for dealing with homelessness.

[Jersey Devil]

7. I guess u like getting ur windshield smeared

By a dirty squeegee

[George II]

9. Few of them were homeless.

[Voltaire2]

25. Oh right.

They were just crisis actors.

[Squinch]

10. As a woman driving in NYC, I was often a target of men who

screamed at me, threatened me and slammed my car with squeegee mops if I didn't hand over the cash.

Who was being rousted again?

[George II]

8. I thought they were all gone in the first few years of Giuliani's reign....

....When I worked on the upper East Side (Lenox Hill Hospital) I'd drive up York Avenue to the 96th Street entrance to the FDR Drive. That was the worst intersection, a few long lights and under the FDR, so it was covered. There would be groups of squeegie guys up there. at times they were threatening.

Anyway, to my knowledge they were all gone years before Bloomberg took office.

[Jersey Devil]

12. Cross Bronx exit to Major Deegan

That’s where I found it worst. You are right about it being Rudy but I was trying to have a little fun in here, so shush

[George II]

16. Yeah, that's a pretty tough stretch, too. Over the years I probably covered....

....just about every one of those intersections between highways - most of them make you get OFF one highway, drive a few local streets, and get back ON the other one. The end of 1st Avenue over the Willis Avenue Bridge was similar trying to get to the Bruckner Expressway.

I drove a cab a couple of nights a week for a few years when I was in college, got LOTS of experience on all those roads.

[brush]

17. Houston and Broadway was were they would try me.

I learned to look them in the eye and wave an index finger back and forth to back them off. It worked—probably because I'm a man.

[Dem4Life1102]

11. Oh well that changes everything...not

https://www.democracynow.org/2004/9/2/guantanamo_on_the_hudson_detained_rnc

https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/mayor-tax-break-net-gain-budget-plan-article-1.507707

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/bloombergs-disgraceful-eviction-of-occupy-wall-street/2011/11/15/gIQASRiqON_blog.html

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/in-an-imf-talk-bloomberg-criticized-notion-of-minimum-wage.html

[Jersey Devil]

14. So u get ur car washed and 30 min later

Some guy with a filthy squeegee screws up ur windshield so bad u can’t see and that is not important? He should be king, never mind president

[Dem4Life1102]

19. Not versus civil liberties

[Jersey Devil]

20. The right to clean windshields?

What constitutional amendment covers that? Or, maybe there is a squeegee clause?

[Dem4Life1102]

21. Guantanamo on the Hudson

https://www.democracynow.org/2004/9/2/guantanamo_on_the_hudson_detained_rnc

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. Where did they go?

[Jersey Devil]

18. Don't know, but they are back

Yep

[radius777]

27. Bloomberg was a far better mayor than Bernie supporter DeBlasio,

who is a joke and would be more effective in serving the citizens as a squeegee guy.

[Recursion]

28. I don't remember seeing those guys after about 98 or 99

They went away with the random street violence and peep shows, under Giuliani