TALKING POINTS 2025

The TALKING POINTS are all wrong by candidates opposing Mamdani.

🔴Need to sell the VISION

Trump won the 2024 election because his primary message was the details of his VISION of how he would make America great again...while the Dem Socialist primary message was to “destroy Trump”.

There is an important message in this. As a former Democrat, and never a business leader, Cuomo is following the Dem playbook…attacking the other candidate first and selling experience in office. There is no VISION in his message. It is absent. He may lose for that reason. CUOMO MUST SELL HIS VISION AND ASK FOR THE ORDER.

MY IDEA: PATH TO PROSPERITY

New York City has been recognized as “the greatest city in the world”. The Covid shutdown and Deblasio's term as Mayor had a negative impact. The post covid period has been a struggle compounded by Biden and Adams opening NYC to a flood of illegal immigrants creating expensive havoc.

NYC is therefore in an awkward period with a leadership gap. VISION is critical, not ideology.

Making NYC The Greatest City in the World Again requires leadership and communicating a VISION.

I learned this as founder and president of a Chamber of Commerce and a process of PLACE MAKING that created a thriving community and a skyline on the East River.

Here is what I learned.

You have to bring the stakeholders together and create the story of the VISION.

You need to communicate the story effectively.

You need to follow the critical guiding questions of:
▫️Where have we been?
▫️Where are we now?
▫️Where do we want to be?
▫️How are we going to get there?
▫️What resources do we have?
🔘What resources do we need to achieve our VISION?
▫️Who will do it?

PATH TO PROSPERITY

First, recognize the wonderfully rich heritage of NYC as the central melting pot of America. Many cultures with deeply rooted traditions in their community came to NYC for a life of OPPORTUNITY. History is clear about this. People came because they valued ‘family’, education, work ethic, and to celebrate life through holidays, music, food, and rituals. There is also a strong emphasis on storytelling ethics and preserving identity across generations. Every culture blended resilience, spirituality and joy as collectively they built the greatest city in the world. Sticks, stones, glass, bricks, and sweat made NYC great…not a government handout. Not a stalinist-marxist-fascist ideology that most escaped.

Second, understand the amazing and unique resources available to make NYC great again by re-inventing and innovation.

NYC has plentiful resources.

[ ] Concentration of best talent and the talent class.

[ ] Best of the best labor pool.

[ ] An Executive pool that is best in the world and leads in innovation.

[ ] The very best LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, and TERRORISM TASK FORCE in the world.

[ ] Transportation system and subway centric housing.

[ ] AFFORDABLE housing support through a system of fair incentives.

[ ] “Centers of Civilization” developed around NYC by VISIONARY DEVELOPERS

[ ] A JOBS and Economic Development plan set in motion by Mayor Bloomberg and Seth Pinsky as Head of EDC.

[ ] Multiple Chambers of Commerce and Partnerships to organize and act as support systems for large, medium, small, and ethnic companies.

[ ] Agencies and policy started under Mayor Adams “City of Yes”.

🔴Here is what I see for NYC's Future

[ ] Return to “Quality of Life” focus and initiatives including return to “Safe Streets Safe City” originally driven by Speaker Peter Vallone. Much stronger police force.
[ ] Infrastructure and Modernization
[ ] Republicans will bring money back to US and NYC under Trump initiatives.
[ ] A wave of gentrification of neighborhoods
[ ] New Yorkers are flockers. Developers are herders.
[ ] Transit based ecosystem was designed to bring people to neighborhoods. This will continue.
[ ] For planning, Look at a subway map.
[ ] City Council proposes zoning district for manufacturing.
[ ] Smart money is investing in NEW YORK CITY because the basics are strong all over the City.

The rest of the country and the globe does not have what NYC already has to be attractive and to support growth.

Developer money can go anywhere and will follow VALUE not trendy newspaper articles.

That is our PATH TO PROSPERITY. Not communist ideology. The VISION must be communicated