OPINION: Why I will no longer vote in NYC
I have been voting in New York City for nearly 30 years, and now I feel no need to vote here ever again.
As a voter, you put your hope and trust in the person you cast your ballot for and want so badly … so very badly, that they will try to come through for you.
But now I see how stupid and naive I was. Now I see it is not the voters that some New York politicians are working for — its rich, real estate interests. They are the official owners of New York politics.
It’s not hard to see the damage these people have caused the average New Yorker. Affordable housing is almost non-existent in every borough. Once-beautiful historic blocks of brownstone housing are now dotted with newly constructed houses that resemble ugly cereal boxes. The well-off New Yorker has their pick of luxury housing, which brings me to the reason I will no longer vote.