Johnson: New Yorkers Live Large

Anthony Weiner is so very, very New York . So is Alex Rodriguez the just suspended Yankee third baseman. Even though they once called Arkansas home, Bill and Hillary Clinton are so very New York, too. They Clintons are spending August in the Hamptons don’t you know, while Hillary takes a little break from the $200,000 a speech circuit. Cashing in can be so tiring. Don’t get me wrong, I love the biggest big city in the world. It’s the capitol of everything from food to finance, but New York is also the world center of entitlement and excess. And its almost always been so. Long before Weiner was tweeting his Anthony to complete, but always attractive strangers New York’s mayor was a dandy dresser and world-class grafter named James J. Walker . That’s Hizzoner nearby at the height of his power and corruption in the late 1920′s. Nice suit/Marc Johnson, The Johnson Post. More here.

Question: Why do you love/hate New York?