Best New York City Mayor in modern times

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but opportunism costs him some points in my eyes. The he couldn't defeat Mark Green or whoever in the Democratic primary makes me less likely to think fondly of him when considering the best mayors of my lifetime.

He was certainly elitist, if that is what you mean by elite. I remember having to learn the new teacher eval rubric with its 36 components and be a union rep at the time. He had a politically independent technocratic streak, proto-Elon Musk. Unlike Musk, he isn't a psychopath but he ran the city with an emphasis on data and metrics that were not always the appropriate means to judge the real world.

His 3rd term was really unforgivable. And what he did with Taylor law'd union contracts was malpractice.