KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: New York City Isn’t Going to Survive the Democrats’ Reign of Error. “When I first started hanging out there a lot it was just after Rudy Giuliani made them clean up the hookers, the chlamydia, and the fear of getting mugged. Native New Yorkers would publicly complain about the city losing its flavor; privately they would say that the place was much nicer.”