Everybody who grew up in this town has at least once ridden the rickety wooden escalator at the center of Macy's Herald Square - a building almost as iconic to New York City as the Empire State Building.
It has been the policy of New York City for several nights now to give them as many inches as they demand.
New York is supposed to be better than that; so far, it has been anything but.
In December 2014, ever-escalating anti-cop protest turmoil was tolerated - even wink-and-nod encouraged - by de Blasio's City Hall.
Let's be frank: The notion that the actions of four cops in Minnesota on Memorial Day in any way justifies the continued fracturing of New York City's social order 10 days later is nonsense on its face.
The willingness of Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo to tolerate what has been happening in New York since last Friday - violence is rampant upstate as well - is scandalous beyond words.
For the two of them, it's always been better to do nothing than to alienate an interest group - but effectively accelerating municipal mayhem through studied inaction is something altogether new.
It has been the policy of New York City for several nights now to give them as many inches as they demand.
New York is supposed to be better than that; so far, it has been anything but.
In December 2014, ever-escalating anti-cop protest turmoil was tolerated - even wink-and-nod encouraged - by de Blasio's City Hall.
Let's be frank: The notion that the actions of four cops in Minnesota on Memorial Day in any way justifies the continued fracturing of New York City's social order 10 days later is nonsense on its face.
The willingness of Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo to tolerate what has been happening in New York since last Friday - violence is rampant upstate as well - is scandalous beyond words.
For the two of them, it's always been better to do nothing than to alienate an interest group - but effectively accelerating municipal mayhem through studied inaction is something altogether new.
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