Comptroller Scott Stringer is hosting an Upper West Side town hall meeting next week. Stringer, an Upper West Sider, is on the short-list of Democrats who could challenge Mayor de Blasio in a primary, though he’s made no indication he’ll run. Here’s info on how to attend:
New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer will host an Upper West Side Town Hall on Thursday, April 6, at 6:30 PM at Goddard Riverside Community Center, located at 593 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY. The Comptroller will take questions from the public and discuss issues important to the community. Residents are encouraged to share their questions, concerns, and ideas.
“We need to work today to do community-level planning for our neighborhoods tomorrow. I want to hear from New Yorkers, and I want to know how we can make government run better,” said New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer. “We’re working every day to make city agencies improve their performance for residents. It’s so important that people share their thoughts so we can make the Upper West Side an even better place to live, work, and raise a family.”
The Comptroller invites constituents who cannot attend to submit questions over Twitter using the hashtag #UWSTownHall.
WHAT: Comptroller Stringer’s Upper West Side Town Hall Meeting
WHO: New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Community Leaders, Members of the Public
WHEN: Thursday, April 6, 6:30 PM. Doors open at 6:00 PM.
WHERE: Goddard Riverside Community Center, 593 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY
***To RSVP or get more information, please call 212-669-3916 or email action@comptroller.nyc.gov.
Please run, Scott! You were always my first choice for mayor. Too bad you don’t have some shtick that makes you stand out. New Yorkers seem to prefer electing those types over people who can actually do the job.
Lent continues. I’ve @ 200 complaints @ some of my N.Y.C.; which I was ‘kidnapped’ to during childhood. A long story. I’ve complaints @ some of G.R.C.C.. I’m sufferin’ , hidden homeless internationally, in a certain slum ; now. Shaloha. Already prayed.
Stringer is an old school UWS lefty who panders entitlements.
Stringer would love to run for mayor. Unfortunately for him he has zero charisma.
DeBlasio is a weasel like Stringer but at least he’s got a personality.
“DeBlasio is a weasel like Stringer but at least he’s got a personality”….yea he’s got the personality of toe jam
Weasel or no, BdeB has not only dodged a bullet when the feds concluded their investigations, but now having latched onto the whole anti-Trump/sanctuary city movement it seems almost certain the man will win in November.
Like it or not BdeB has become the new poster boy for the poor, down trodden, and so froth. Never mind he and the city council have shoved vast sums of taxpayer money into various schemes to the point the City’s budget is near the breaking point.
Mr. Stringer wants to be mayor so badly he can taste it nearly every hour of the day. You see this in the litany of scathing reports issued by the comptrollers office regarding this or that policy out of City Hall.
Attempting to unseat an incumbent mayor would be a foolish move after just one term, and Mr. Stringer knows this well. Happily thanks to term limits the man only has to wait another four years for his chance, and thus is keeping his powder dry in 2017.
In 2022 both Mr. Stringer and Mr. de Blasio will be term limited out of office. Thus will begin, much like 2013, the game of NYC political musical chairs.
Mr. Stringer is almost surely going to run for mayor in 2022, but then again so is the current speaker of City Council who will be term limited out this year. Strong rumors are the Quinn woman will make another go at it as well.
Surely as night follows day many of the current council members either term limited out this year or in 2022 will run for respective borough president offices. That branch of NYC government should be abolished as it serves no real purpose except mainly for patronage), functions could be split up to elected city council members districts.
One or more term limited city council member will run for Public Advocate (another office that could be abolished for above reasons), and of course there will be that open comptroller spot.
Term limits was supposed to bring fresh and new blood into NYC politics; far as one can see it just causes mass shifting of offices every four or eight years. Otherwise it is the same song just a different conductor, orchestra and chorus.
There is absolutely no chance Mr. Stringer will run for mayor in 2022, as you insist. None whatsoever.
Nor will a single one of the current council members be term limited out of office in 2022, as you also insist. Not one of them.
The next city election will be four years from now, in 2021. Not 2022.
And, as for your prediction that “the Quinn woman” will run again, that may turn on what the Stringer man decides to do, don’t you think?
Ok, so had the year incorrect, 2021 it is, there is no need to get nasty about the matter.
Why would the Quinn woman wait to decide if she will run or not based upon Mr. Stringer’s decision. It is a free country and the democratic primary is open, well to the extent the Machine wants it to be anyway.
*IF* C. Quinn is going to run then 2021 is probably her best bet. Again unseating an incumbent mayor is not easy so that would mean waiting eight years.
Indeed, and my point precisely. Why is it “Mr. Stringer” but “the Quinn woman” (here, a second time)?
Out of curiosity, do you consider it polite to refer to Ms. Quinn as “the Quinn woman”?
good point.
I can’t for the life of me think what role the Comptroller plays at the neighborhood level that would lead me, as a Westsider, to have questions for him.
Really? You can’t think of a single instance where the City is spending money in our neighborhood? C’mon, try real hard!
A major function of the City Comptroller is to see that City money is being spent properly, even wisely, and that the people of the City — you and I — are getting the best “bang” for our tax bucks. I think Mr Stringer may have lots to say to us about that, and I appreciate his interest in hearing our views about our needs.
What is it you thought the city comptroller does, anyway?