It is early days in the administration of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. His actions so far appear to be calculated to drive both the wealthy and the upper middle class out of town.
Detroit might be a not-bad model for NYC's future, Mamdani is taking early steps on a path that leads to the Gotham of Harry Harrison's book Make Room, Make Room, and the 1973 film Soylent Green inspired by MRMR.
Downstream from Soylent Green lies the dystopian Manhattan of the 1981 Escape from New York. Seal Team psych washouts yearning to play Snake Plissken lie in wait.
And the people of NYC? They volunteered for what's coming; they voted for Armageddon. Quoting H. L. Mencken, "The common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
