{"id":34602,"date":"2013-11-04T22:01:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34602"},"modified":"2013-11-04T22:02:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:02:13","slug":"diverse-neighborhood-has-mixed-enthusiasm-about-new-york-city-mayor%e2%80%99s-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34602","title":{"rendered":"Diverse Neighborhood Has Mixed Enthusiasm About New York City Mayor\u2019s Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diverse Neighborhood Has Mixed Enthusiasm About New York City Mayor\u2019s Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2013-11-03<\/p>\n

Cara Buckley<\/strong><\/p>\n

The last presidential candidate Steve Waldman voted for was Hubert H. Humphrey<\/a>. The last mayor he cast a ballot for was Edward I. Koch<\/a>. And he\u2019ll be darned if he is going to break his nonvoting streak by partaking in the mayoral election on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Republican candidate, Joseph J. Lhota<\/a>, reminds him too much of Rudolph W. Giuliani<\/a>, of whom he takes a dim view. The Democratic candidate, Bill de Blasio<\/a>, strikes him as likely to help people who abuse welfare. Mr. Waldman, a 65-year-old computer supplier, sees the city is on a reverse Robin Hood<\/a> course \u2014 with parking fines, bridge tolls and assorted high taxes \u2014 and extracting more dollars from people like him…<\/p>\n

…With New York City on the verge of electing a new mayor for the first time in 12 years, the people of Sheepshead Bay<\/a>, with its mosaic of Russians, Irish, Italians and Jews, have views on the city\u2019s prospects that are as diverse as their neighborhood. The community can at times seem ethnically segmented, but the four-decade-old El Greco serves as an enduring melting pot, and draws hordes of local residents by the boothful each weekend…<\/p>\n

…Ms. McField, who works as an accountant for the Administration for Children\u2019s Services, said she yearned for an end to the Police Department\u2019s controversial stop-and-frisk<\/a> tactics that Mr. de Blasio has vowed to change. Ms. McField said that many of her family members had been harassed by the police, including her husband, John McField, 36, a former corrections officer who recently returned from serving as an Army specialist in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing black in New York, we see a lot of things that other people don\u2019t see,\u201d Ms. McField said as her family tucked into brunch. \u201cIt\u2019s emotional for me,\u201d she added, her eyes welling, \u201cIt\u2019s targeting.\u201d…<\/p>\n

…Yet Luchia Larrazabal, a caregiver who was eating with her daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren, said she pinned her hopes on Mr. de Blasio to help bridge one of the city\u2019s enduring issues \u2014 racial schisms. After all, he is white, his wife is black and their two children are biracial.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of the mixed race,\u201d Ms. Larrazabal said, \u201cI look forward to him uniting everyone.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diverse Neighborhood Has Mixed Enthusiasm About New York City Mayor\u2019s Race The New York Times 2013-11-03 Cara Buckley The last presidential candidate Steve Waldman voted for was Hubert H. Humphrey. The last mayor he cast a ballot for was Edward I. Koch. And he\u2019ll be darned if he is going to break his nonvoting streak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20],"tags":[15381,16301,16302,16299,2711,596,2640,16305,16303,16300,16304,2327],"class_list":["post-34602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-cara-buckley","tag-joseph-j-lhota","tag-luchia-larrazabal","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-times","tag-oleg-boldyrev","tag-rachel-mcfield","tag-sheepshead-bay","tag-steve-waldman","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}