When Bill De Blasio was sworn in for his second term as mayor this week, City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Tish James were also sworn in for second terms -- and unofficially began (if their speeches were any indication) campaigns for mayor in 2021.
Never too early to start working towards the future.
NYC is the greatest city in the world for many reasons but, one of them, is that we're forever thinking and planning for the future. And this, obviously, includes politicians.
The future is always Over There, a horizon that's forever just out of reach but that also, paradoxically, falling behind us as a new horizon arrives in its place.
It's always been this way. Think back to the year 1957. Why? Well, that's when a young lawyer named John Lindsay started planning his run for Congress, an election he'd later win on his way to becoming mayor in 1966.
It's also the same year that two New York baseball teams, the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, left NYC for the West Coast -- clearing the way for the establishment of the Mets and transforming the baseball culture of this city forever.
It's also the year when a prominent black leader named Malcolm X held a rally against police violence, more than 60 years before Black Lives Matter.
In the world outside NYC, it was the same year when 13 American soldiers were injured in a training exercise on the other side of the world -- in a country few people knew about called Vietnam.
To sum up: the seeds of NYC, America, and the world in the 1960s was created in the 1950s. The future, after all, is always being formed in the past.
And in NYC, that's still the case -- today, and forever after.
Just remember, you heard (or read) about it here first.
It's always been this way. Think back to the year 1957. Why? Well, that's when a young lawyer named John Lindsay started planning his run for Congress, an election he'd later win on his way to becoming mayor in 1966.
It's also the same year that two New York baseball teams, the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, left NYC for the West Coast -- clearing the way for the establishment of the Mets and transforming the baseball culture of this city forever.
It's also the year when a prominent black leader named Malcolm X held a rally against police violence, more than 60 years before Black Lives Matter.
In the world outside NYC, it was the same year when 13 American soldiers were injured in a training exercise on the other side of the world -- in a country few people knew about called Vietnam.
To sum up: the seeds of NYC, America, and the world in the 1960s was created in the 1950s. The future, after all, is always being formed in the past.
And in NYC, that's still the case -- today, and forever after.
Just remember, you heard (or read) about it here first.
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