De Blasio got himself noticed by hitting Bloomberg the hardest and giving voice to the millions of struggling New Yorkers who looked
at the post-9 / 11 gilded - age excess all around them — the stratospheric rents and impossibly high cost of living, the bank branches and chain stores squeezing out
local mom - and - pops, the very skyline remade by gleaming new high - rises catering to hedge - funders and Chinese and Russian billionaires — and worried it could permanently transform the greatest city in the world into an open - air luxury
mall for the global super-rich.
While your Dad probably paid full price for his North American - made suits and ties
at a
local men's shop, and your
Mom relied upon the
local dress shop for all her formal wear, you're likely to drop by the
local factory outlet
mall to load up on the Korean - made khakis and casual sweaters you wear to the office everyday.