Thing is he destroyed everything he could touch. He "balanced" the budget by depleting cash reserves, he cost the city a fortune by cancelling projects that wer

Thing is he destroyed everything he could touch. He "balanced" the budget by depleting cash reserves, he cost the city a fortune by cancelling projects that were already under-way, and his legacy is a single subway stop that costs $3 billion that we still don't know how to pay for. This is quite an achievement from a man who campaigned against the "gravy train". It'll take twenty years to unwind the damage he's done, and we're just talking about a city where the Mayor is just one vote, they have very little executive authority. He didn't have access to the most powerful military in the world. He didn't have a political party backing him up. He didn't have nuclear weapons. He did about as much damage as he could do.