"Seth Barron has covered New York for a very long time. He has a new book The Last Days of New York. The title says it all." -- TUCKER CARLSON A must read." -- BRIAN KILMEADE, host of Fox & Friends In this gripping new book, Seth Barron warns the city may not recover from the preening, disastrous incompetence of Mayor de Blasio.'' -- RAY KELLY, Police Commissioner of New York City
Barron cuts through the noise and provides a devastating account of a city's decline under the delusional leadership of socialists and con men." -- GREG KELLY, host of Newsmax Greg Kelly Reports BILL DE BLASIO SET THE STAGE FOR THE RUIN OF NEW YORK CITY THE LAST DAYS OF NEW YORK: a reporter's true tale tells the story of how a corrupted political system hollowed out New York City, leaving it especially vulnerable, all in the name of equity and "fairness." When, in the future, people ask how New York City fell to pieces, they can be told--quoting Hemingway--"gradually, then suddenly." New Yorkers awoke from a slumber of ease and prosperity to discover that their glorious city was not only unprepared for crisis, but that the underpinnings of its fortune had been gutted by the reckless mismanagement of Bill de Blasio and the progressive political machine that elevated him to power. Faced with a global pandemic of world-historical proportions, the mayor dithered, offering contradictory, unscientific, and meaningless advice. The city became the world's epicenter of infection and death. The protests, riots, and looting that followed the death of George Floyd, and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement--cheered on and celebrated by the media and political class--accelerated the crash of confidence that New York City needed in order to rebound quickly from the economic disaster. Through reckless financial husbandry; by sowing racial discord and resentment; by enshrining a corrosive pay-to-play political culture that turned City Hall into a ticket office; and by using his office as a platform to advance himself as a national political figure, Bill de Blasio set the stage for the ruin of New York City. As New Yorkers slowly adjust to their new reality, they ask themselves how we had been so unprepared--not so much for the coronavirus, which caught everyone by surprise--but for the economic shock, which was at least foreseeable. THE LAST DAYS OF NEW YORK is the story of how a lifelong political operative with no private-sector experience assumed control of a one-party cit