there was once a very nice guy who became MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY----nice guy---
well intentioned---smart. ----The poor guy---thru no fault of his own----- was born
MELANINATED----ie his melanocytes produced lots more melanin than do mine.
When he became Mayor people were really happy------but his fellow BIG TIME
MELANIN producers took it personally and treated it as a PASS to engage in
riots. They destroyed his political career------RIP---DAVID DINKINS.
Well what do you know, something we agree on, that David Dinkins did a good job.
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Mayoralty
Dinkins entered office in January 1990 pledging racial healing, and famously referred to New York City's demographic diversity as a "gorgeous mosaic".
[22] The crime rate in New York City had risen alarmingly during the 1980s, and the rate of homicide in particular reached an all-time high of 2,245 cases during 1990, the first year of the Dinkins administration.
[23] The rates of most crimes, including all categories of violent crime, then declined during the remainder of his four-year term. That ended a 30-year upward spiral and initiated a trend of falling rates that continued and accelerated beyond his term.
[24][25] However, the high absolute levels, the peak early in his administration, and the only modest decline subsequently (
homicide down 12% from 1990 to 1993)
[26] resulted in Dinkins' suffering politically from the perception that crime remained out of control on his watch.
[27][28] Dinkins in fact initiated a hiring program that expanded the police department nearly 25%.
The New York Times reported, "He obtained the State Legislature's permission to dedicate a tax to hire thousands of police officers, and he fought to preserve a portion of that anticrime money to keep schools open into the evening, an award-winning initiative that kept tens of thousands of teenagers off the street."
[28][29]
During his final days in office, Dinkins made last-minute negotiations with the sanitation workers, presumably to preserve the public status of garbage removal. Giuliani, who had defeated Dinkins in the 1993 mayoral race, blamed Dinkins for a "cheap political trick" when Dinkins planned the resignation of
Victor Gotbaum, Dinkins' appointee on the board of education, thus guaranteeing Gotbaum's replacement six months in office.
[30] Dinkins also signed a last-minute 99-year lease with the
USTA National Tennis Center. By negotiating a fee for New York City based on the event's gross income, the Dinkins administration made a deal with the
US Open that brings more economic benefit to the City of New York each year than the
New York Yankees,
New York Mets,
New York Knicks, and
New York Rangers combined.
[2] The city's revenue-producing events
Fashion Week,
Restaurant Week, and
Broadway on Broadway were all created under Dinkins.
[31]
Dinkins's term was marked by polarizing events such as the
Family Red Apple boycott, a boycott of a Korean-owned grocery in
Flatbush,
Brooklyn, and the
1991 Crown Heights riot. When
Lemrick Nelson was acquitted of murdering
Yankel Rosenbaum during the
Crown Heights riots, Dinkins said, "I have no doubt that in this case the criminal-justice system has operated fairly and openly."
[32] Later he wrote in his memoirs, "I continue to fail to understand that verdict."
[2]
In 1991, when "Iraqi
Scud missiles were falling" in Israel
[33] and the Mayor's press secretary said "security would be tight and
gas masks would be provided for the contingent",
[34] Mayor Dinkins visited
Israel as a sign of support.
[35]
The Dinkins administration was adversely affected by a declining economy, which led to lower tax revenue and budget shortfalls.
[36] Nevertheless, Dinkins' mayoralty was marked by a number of significant achievements.
[36] New York City's crime rate, including the murder rate, declined in Dinkins' final years in office; Dinkins persuaded the state legislature to dedicate certain tax revenue for crime control (including an increase in the size of the
New York Police Department along with after-school programs for teenagers), and he hired
Raymond W. Kelly as police commissioner.
[36] Times Square was cleaned up during Dinkins' term, and he persuaded
The Walt Disney Company to rehabilitate the old
New Amsterdam Theatre on
42nd Street.
[36] The city negotiated a
99-year lease of city park space to the
United States Tennis Association to create the
USTA National Tennis Center (which Mayor
Michael Bloomberg later called "the only good athletic sports stadium deal, not just in New York, but in the country").
[36] Dinkins continued an initiative begun by Ed Koch to rehabilitate dilapidated housing in northern Harlem, the
South Bronx, and Brooklyn; overall more housing was rehabilitated in Dinkins' only term than Giuliani's two terms.
[36] With the support of Governor
Mario Cuomo, the city invested in
supportive housing for mentally ill homeless people and achieved a decrease in the size of the city's homeless shelter population to its lowest point in two decades.
[28]
1993 election
Main article:
1993 New York City mayoral election
In 1993, Dinkins lost to
Republican Rudy Giuliani in a rematch of the
1989 election. Dinkins earned 48.3 percent of the vote, down from 51 percent in 1989.
[37] One factor in his loss was his perceived indifference to the plight of the Jewish community during the Crown Heights riot.
[38] Another was a strong turnout for Giuliani in
Staten Island; a referendum on
Staten Island's secession from New York was placed on the ballot that year by Democratic Governor
Mario Cuomo and the
New York State Legislature.
[2]
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