{"id":139708,"date":"2025-08-12T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139708\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:00:10","slug":"the-four-years-when-old-new-york-died-and-a-new-one-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139708\/","title":{"rendered":"The four years when old New York died and a new one was born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Mike Bloomberg once mused that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/the-economist-reads\/2022\/07\/27\/what-to-read-to-understand-new-york\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> was \u201ca luxury product\u201d. The former mayor meant that businesses\u2014and, by extension, their staff\u2014should be willing to tolerate higher costs in exchange for the advantages of living in a megacity. But many voters crave Manhattan buzz at Midwestern prices. This is one reason why New York\u2019s Democrats recently backed a young, charismatic, far-left mayoral candidate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/united-states\/2025\/06\/27\/zohran-mamdani-trumps-worst-nightmare-may-really-be-a-gift-to-him\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, whose plans to ease the cost of living (such as a rent freeze) would surely make things worse (by discouraging new construction).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Bloomberg once mused that New York was \u201ca luxury product\u201d. The former mayor meant that businesses\u2014and, by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,392,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-139708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115015924710257449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}