re: #14 lawhawk

30 years ago, Ford told NYC to drop dead.

NYC is now one of the richest and most prosperous cities on the planet. That happened because of a lot of hard work, getting the crack epidemic under control, ongoing and evolving policing, a fundamental review of how and what it means to run the city as mayor, and we have a much better city to show for it.

The same could potentially happen with places like Detroit or Newark or Camden or Trenton or other rust belt cities.

NYC isn’t alone in a rebirth and renaissance. Pittsburgh also was able to come through the iron industry shutdown and remade itself as a health and tech hub.

Detroit could do the same, but it needs leadership from the governors office - not merely trying to sell off what isn’t bolted down (and the MI governor is hoping the manager will do that too). We’d have to ignore decades of where the Detroit economy was propping up the state economy - it’s time for the rest of the state to help give back and restore Detroit’s economic circumstances.

It’s an apples-to-oranges comparison.

New York City’s economy hasn’t been based on the industrial sector for more than a century - its engine almost exclusively drives from being the financial/banking hub of the US - the import/export industry is a distant second place.
Also, Detroit, and to a lesser extent Cleveland, had a MASSIVE exodus of population when the auto industry left town. With that exodus, the financial base driving the city collapsed. This didn’t happen in the case of NYC. What grew, and eventually fixed New York would not work with any other city in the United States.