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View of NY from a Ferry - Merged from Two Smaller Photos
On a trip to New York last week, my girlfriend and I often got into conversations with New Yorkers about how much the city had improved. Everyone agreed that the city was much safer than it once had been. Times Square, previously a porno district, was now, in the words of one resident, "Disneyland." The mob was gone from the fish market. More than one resident mentioned the "squeegee guys" - people who had run up to cars stopped at lights and started cleaning the windows, unasked, and who then demanded payment, sometimes with threats. The "squeegee guys" are now a thing of the past.
We asked every resident with whom we got into this conversation, who was responsible for these changes.
Every single resident we spoke to - both friends and strangers - immediately volunteered that Giuliani had done it.
The ability to lead a giant bureaucracy like New York City - to lead it effectively, and to such significant accomplishments - is extremely rare, and is a quality greatly to be desired for the nation's next President.
