Dear President-Elect Biden: New York, so poor, so ill-managed, so corrupt, it must have a $T handout.

In Brooklyn, Grand Army Plaza Gets an Intervention

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/realestate/streetscapes-grand-army-plaza-brooklyn.html

Grant's Tomb, Soldiers and Sailors Monument, both in Riverside Park, Manhattan, are barricaded now, the first to exclude tourists inside due to Covid, the second for repairs though still the site of Memorial Day celebration this year.

Maintenance of public monuments is a persistent challenge although there is no lack of funding for de luxe spectaculars like The High Line, The Vessel, The Shed, The Met, The MOMA, The Whitney, The Wall Street, The WTC, The MAS, The Dumbo, The Amazon, The Hudson Yards, The This and The That Pile advancing the cause of The Market as envisioned by The REBNY.

Gotcha, REBNY taxes pay for The Needy, so The Subsidies and The Tax Reductions are The Necessary for The Grifting so brazenly shown by The Donald's tiny to zero taxes paid exemplifying The Art of the Deal practiced so rewardingly by The Developers and The Politicians and The Banks and The Lawyers and the Architects in The Big Apple.

The Monuments for Real Estate Autocracy are carefully tended, both as outward architecture and as inward confidential transactions of investment and office-seeking campaigns. Indeed, every public monument and their preservation serves that same goal by that same outward and inward duplicity.

Currently The Infrastructure Necessity is funding The Squander-Most MTA and The Urgently Needed Trans-Hudson Tunnel. The President-Elect Biden is fervently embraced as The Savior of Distressed New York, so poor, so ill-managed, so corrupt, it must have a $T handout.