Last month, when the primary winners in the NYC muncipal elections were announced, I indicated how interesting it was that the winners for all three city-wide offices -- mayor, public advocate, comptroller -- were from Brooklyn. Assuming they win the general election in November, Brooklyn will cement itself as the center of political power in this city.
As usual, Mr NYC was ahead of his time -- only now are other political analysts examining this fascinating phenomena, the Brooklynization of the whole city. I did more than a month ago!
As far as I know, until now, NYC has always had at least one city-wide elected official from Manhattan -- now it will have none.
About 123 years ago, Brooklyn was its own city until it begrudgingly got annexed into Greater New York in 1898. It became just another "outerborough", one of five oddly connected political entities, instead of being its own glorious metropolis. Now, a century-plus later, Brooklyn will rule its conqueror, the servant will become the master, la chassure est sur l'autre pied (the shoe is on the other foot, in case you were wondering) -- and Manhattan now is, at least in NYC power terms, the outerborough now.
Oh, and talking about politics, this happened today:
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