STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Violent crime in on the upswing in New York.
Murders, robberies and shootings were up in the city in 2019, according to NYPD stats. Homicides and shootings rose on Staten Island last year as well.
Meanwhile, a string of vicious anti-Semitic attacks during the holiday season have people of the Jewish faith literally fearing for their lives.
It’s putting a serious dent in our standing as the safest big city in America.
So what does Mayor Bill de Blasio choose to make noise about? He takes a piece out of Domino’s for price-gouging on pizzas at the New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square.
Nothing more pressing to talk about, Mr. Mayor?
De Blasio tweeted: “Jacking up your prices on people trying to celebrate the holidays? Classy, @dominos. To the thousands who came to Times Square last night to ring in 2020, I’m sorry this corporate chain exploited you — stick it to them by patronizing one of our fantastic LOCAL pizzerias.”
On the one hand, I can see where de Blasio is coming from. Anybody who’d pay $30 for a Domino’s pie while in the pizza capital of the world deserves to get price-gouged. You have a million other options in New York City. Domino’s is what you buy when there are no local pizzerias in your area.
But this is Manhattan on New Year’s Eve. Prices were up everywhere you looked, including if you took an Uber or a Lyft. This is one of those nights when bar and restaurant owners look to make real money. Was Domino’s really the only ones exploiting New Year’s revelers?
And pizza isn’t exactly cheap on non-holidays in the city. A run-of-the-mill pie could easily get you into that $30 neighborhood. Never mind buying a pie in one of those chi-chi places that treat pizza like it’s some kind of fine cuisine.
Let’s be honest: Those penned-in, diaper-wearing folks in Times Square were likely more than happy to hand over the $30. That’s supply and demand. I went to the Simon and Garfunkel concert in Central Park in 1981 and I remember people offering $50 to someone walking through the crowd with a pizza. And I can tell you that you couldn’t get a loose joint for the usual $1 in the park that day either.
A big event like New Year’s or a free concert is a business opportunity. You could have bought cookies, chips and bottles of water from Walgreen’s and made a killing re-selling it all at inflated prices to the New Year’s Eve crowd.
And de Blasio is the last person who should talk about pizza. This is the guy who came to Staten Island and ate a slice with a knife and fork. And if he was trying to be some kind of anti-corporate avenger by attacking Domino’s, de Blasio should remember that a lot of those Domino’s shops are locally owned.
It’s just mind-boggling the things that de Blasio chooses to take a stand on. A lot of days, he seems downright disinterested in what goes on in New York City. He’s famous for jetting off at the drop of a hat. He ran a no-hope bid for president last year that saw him halfway across the country when Midtown Manhattan was plunged into darkness by a power outage. He’s often absent from City Hall even on days when he is in town.
But Domino’s is price gouging? De Blasio can’t get to the barricades quick enough.
The city has real issues, like rising instances of violent crime. Subway cars that are starting to sport graffiti again. Dangerous criminals loosed thanks to criminal justice reforms.
Priorities, Mr. Mayor.
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