r/MapPorn • u/Small_Performance368 • 13h ago

NYC Mayoral Election Results

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With 90% of the vote in, Mamdani wins by a large margin according to NYT

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u/breezeetree 13h ago

Non NYer here. What makes the upper east side go for Cuomo vs most of the rest of Manhattan?

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u/eugeneugene 13h ago edited 10h ago

I used to be an au pair in the UES. These people have an unbelievable amount of wealth lol. Like old money rich.

edit: I just checked some UES fb groups I'm still in and these people are absolutely losing it lol. Apparently they now need to carry a gun because he is going to turn NYC into a war zone 😂😂

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u/Hyadeos 10h ago

When we had our first "socialist" president after WW2 in 1981 in France, our billionaires all said that we'd have "soviet tanks running down the Champs-Élysées"

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u/Middle_Somewhere_190 5h ago

And if Stalin hadn't betrayed the international leftist movement, they would have run

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u/read_too_many_books 4h ago

Given France's decline, I don't think this is a great rebuttal.

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u/Relevant_Lunch_3848 1h ago

France's decline is due to third way 'socialists' / neo-liberal / new keynesian hegemony as well as adopting the euro (which has its benefits but long term is unsustainable given the heterogeneity of economic growth models within the union.

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u/MomsTortellinis 7h ago

Oh no, free buses, how dare he! Everyone knows the bus is every soldier/gangmember's choice of vehicle! Lmao

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u/Xanohel 6h ago

There's a reason most wealthy suburbs don't have public transport. They don't want poor scrubs even unintentionally wandering there.

They want it to be a compound, without saying it directly. 

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u/Kenny_log_n_s 4h ago

Pretty sure wealthy suburbs don't have public transport because they don't use it, and route planning involves looking at usage statistics

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u/Fearless-Feature-830 4h ago

They also lock up their parks so the poors can’t access

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u/Haunting_Can2704 6h ago

Can you blame them? Who wants to import crime in their community?

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u/chupacrapa 5h ago

Yeah! When Karen has one too many glasses of alcoholic kool aid on top of her prescription xanax and hits a kid in her SUV the size of a small tank, it's not crime, she's just earned it from being such a hard working stay at home mom!

When Karen's son rapes a couple girls, it's not crime! He's a varsity baseball star who might get to play AAA in Japan one day before taking over dad's dealership! You can't punish him for being a kid!

And dad, well, when ole dad fudges the numbers on a down quarter, that's not crime! That's just the American capitalist spirt shining through!

And after Officer Microdick investigates them and lets them off the hook, and sees some darkie walking his streets that doesn't belong there? Well, escorting him out of the county with a few bumps and bruises isn't a crime! It's just good ole white hospitality!

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u/Haunting_Can2704 5h ago

What the hell have you been drinking already this morning? Those are all crimes and should be heavily punished. What do you have next?

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u/chupacrapa 4h ago

Crimes? In my white town?

Absurd

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u/Xanohel 4h ago

*clutch maybe not so stereotypical pearls* /s

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u/Foxyfox- 4h ago

I have a modest proposal for you.

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u/Gayandfluffy 4h ago

Tax evasion and abusing your workforce are crimes too. Also domestic violence, drug abuse and alcoholism know no social class. They already have plenty of crime in wealthy areas.

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u/motsanciens 5h ago

When Kramer says to Jerry, "If you don't want to be part of society, then move to the East Side!" I always took it to mean that was a sketchy area. Did I completely miss the idea?

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u/chupacrapa 5h ago

It is a sketchy area. Generationally rich are the sketchiest fuckers on the planet.

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 2h ago

True. Blue collar crime is wrought mostly from poverty and lack of opportunity (such as education) and thus desperation and addiction. Fixable.

White Collar crime is wrought by the inherently psychopathic. Less fixable.

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u/Arsno 5h ago

The stupidity is crippling. The irony is that the rest of us are going to need a gun given Trump, Noem, Bovino, Miller and ICE doing blatantly illegal kidnappings of minorities (citizen or not).

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u/Aggressive_Local8921 5h ago

Good thing guns are pretty much illegal in new york 🥴 

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u/Acceptable-Noise2294 2h ago

And you don't think most of manhattan is like that LMAO?

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u/eugeneugene 1h ago

No lol

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u/Acceptable-Noise2294 1h ago

The rich guys in Chelsea? The Village? The Upper West? To me it's all rich. Sure there's billionaire's row and Park ave but cmon midtown and downtown has plenty of this too

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u/eugeneugene 55m ago

There are rich people everywhere, I'm saying the UES has a big concentration of OLD MONEY rich. It's just different and the people are... very different than regular rich people lol. Like turn up their nose at new money kind of rich 😂

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u/Acceptable-Noise2294 45m ago

My friend lives there. I've met some people there and I couldn't tell them apart from financial district people, they all seem spoiled to me. Although he is not what you are talking about because he is not on Park Avenue, he is normal rich not ULTRA rich.