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 Bill de Blasio’s replace-Rikers plan is falling completely apart

By Nicole Gelinas

September 27, 2020 | 8:43pm
 

‘If he were serious about it, he would have started in the first year of his first term.’

Will Mayor de Blasio’s plan to close Rikers be the left’s Second Avenue subway — something all public officials favor but never accomplish? Hizzoner will leave office next year with no progress on his “four borough jails” plan. His successor will care less.

In his “Last Subway” book, Philip Plotch explains why, since 1903, generations of New York pols have promised a Second Avenue subway but never delivered. Yes, we finally have three East Side stops. But the original plan was from the East Bronx to lower Manhattan.

 

  https://nypost.com/2020/09/27/bill-de-blasios-replace-rikers-plan-is-falling-completely-apart/